Question

Screen-printing a batch of shirts requires 1 minute per shirt in addition to 4 minutes of

initial set-up time. If it takes 47 minutes to screen-print a batch of shirts, how many shirts
are in the batch?

Answer 1

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Answer:

43

Explanation:

The first 4 minutes are spent doing setup, so the remaining 43 minutes are spent printing shirts. If 1 shirt is printed for each minute, then 43 shirts are printed.