Question

A carpenter has less than 120 minutes to spend painting furniture each day. Today, he has spent 30.5 minutes painting a desk. Now he will paint x chairs, each of which takes 12.5 minutes. What is the maximum number of chairs the carpenter can paint?

Answer 1

Maximum number of chairs is 7.

Explanation:

We are told he has less than 120 minutes to spend painting furniture each day.

Now he has spent 30.5 minutes painting a desk.

Also, he wants to paint "x" number of chairs with each chair taking 12.5 minutes.

Thus, we have;

30.5 + 12.5x < 120

Subtract 30.5 from both sides to get;

12.5x < 120 - 30.5

12.5x < 89.5

x < 89.5/12.5

x < 7.16

Thus, maximum number of chairs he can paint is 7