Question

You decide to start a dog walking business and are trying to plan how much you to charge. You determine that you can only walk 5 dogs at the most at any given time. You also decide to charge in 30 minute intervals and, due to your schedule, you can only walk for 3 hours a day. Based on those conditions, what is the most amount of dogs that you can walk in a given day?

Answer 1

The most amount of dogs that you can walk in a given day is 30 dogs.

Explanation:

You decide to charge in 30 minute intervals, and due to your schedule you can only walk 3 hours a day. Then you must know how many intervals of walks you can do in those 3 hours a day that you can walk. Being 1 hour equal to 60 minutes, then 30 minutes equals 2 intervals in 1 hour. Then you can apply the following rule of three: if in 1 hour there are 2 intervals of 30 minutes, in 3 hours how many intervals of 30 minutes are there?

`amounts of intervals=(3hours*2 intervals)/(1 hour)`

amount of intervals= 6 intervals

You determine that you can only walk a maximum of 5 dogs at a given time, that is, in each interval you can walk a maximum of 5 dogs. Then you can apply the following rule of three: if in 1 interval you walk a maximum of 5 dogs, in 6 intervals how many dogs do you walk a maximum?

`amounts of dogs=(5 dogs*6 intervals)/(1 interval)`

amount of dogs= 30 dogs

The most amount of dogs that you can walk in a given day is 30 dogs.