Question

If you sent 1 text message every 3 seconds, how long would it take you to have sent 100 text messages total?

Answer 1

You would take 300 seconds to send 100 text messages

Explanation : 3 sec X 1X 300
———— = ————- ———- ———-
1 text 100 texts 1 1
X = 300

Answer 2

Rate: 1 text every 3 seconds

Since we want to know the time for 100 texts, multiple the time by 100.

So 3 x 100 = 300 seconds

There are 60 seconds in a minute, so to determine how many minutes are in 300 seconds, we divide by 60.

300/60 = 5 minutes

Therefore, it would take 5 minutes or 300 seconds to send 100 text messages.