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About LinkBacksNeed Help ASAP. If three secretaries can type 12 pages in 5 minutes, how long will it take for 6 secretaries to type 32 pages at the same rate?
You are told that 3 secretaries can do 12 pages in 5 minutes.
One secretary can do 1/3 as much = 4 pages in 5 minutes.
The pages per minute from each secretary is:
The pages per minute for 6 secretaries will be 6 times as high: 0.8*6 = 4.8
So finally, if you have 6 secretaries doing a total of 4.8 pages per minute, how long will it take to do 32 pages?
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