• Jun 13th 2008, 01:19 PM
AMSimon
If a sausage-making machine produces 3,000 sausages in h hours, how many sausages can it produce in m minutes?

The answer is 50m/h .... but why??!! Why 50? Why not just 3000/h and then the result divided by m? or

(3000/h)
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m

• Jun 13th 2008, 01:28 PM
Moo
Hello,

Quote:

Originally Posted by AMSimon
If a sausage-making machine produces 3,000 sausages in h hours, how many sausages can it produce in m minutes?

The answer is 50m/h .... but why??!! Why 50? Why not just 3000/h and then the result divided by m? or

(3000/h)
_______
m

There are 60 minutes in 1 hour.

So if the machine produces 3000 sausages an hour, it will produce 60 times less sausages in one minute :)
• Jun 13th 2008, 01:34 PM
Plato
Quote:

Originally Posted by AMSimon
If a sausage-making machine produces 3,000 sausages in h hours, how many sausages can it produce in m minutes?
The answer is 50m/h .... but why??!! Why 50?

There are 60 minutes is one hour.
It makes $\frac {3000}{h}$ in one hour.
$\frac {3000}{60}=50$
• Jun 13th 2008, 01:36 PM
AMSimon
but its h hours
what if you wanted to find out for 2 or 3 hours, or each 15 minutes. why divide by 60 right off the bat? then it will always have to be one hour?