All of the members of our spray-painting team paint at the same speed. If 8 team members can paint a certain wall in 36 minutes, then how many minutes would it take 12 of our team members to paint the same wall?
i already tried this problem multiple times and i kept getting it wrong :((
+36916 1 wall / 8 m 36 min = 1 w/ 288 m- min
1 w / 288 m - min x 12 m = 1 w /24 min 24 minutes
ahh thanks !! could you also help me on these two?
- All of the members of our spray-painting team paint at the same speed. If 20 team members can paint a 6000 square foot wall in 24 minutes, then how many minutes would it take the 20 members to paint an 8000 square foot wall?
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- All of the members of our spray-painting team paint at the same speed. If 20 team members can paint a 6000 square foot wall in 24 minutes, then how many minutes would it take the 20 members to paint an 8000 square foot wall?
6000 ft^2 / 20 m 24 min = 12.5 ft^2 / m-min
12.5 ft^2 / m-min * 20 m / 8000 ft^2 = .03125 / min = 32 min
or another way
24 min / ( 6000 ft^2 - 20 m ) * 20 m * 8000 ft^2 = 32 min
You try the last one....just remember you have to get the units to cancel out and leave what you are looking for...this will dtermine whenther to divide or multiply by the parameters.....
