To evaluate: the number of potatoes in a bucket.
Answer to Problem 42PPE
The total number of potatoes in the bucket is 56.
Explanation of Solution
Given:
It is given that each morning, a dell worker has to make several pies and peel a bucket of potatoes.
On Monday, it took the worker 2 h to make the pies and an average of 1.5 min to peel each potato.
On Tuesday, the worker finished the work in the same amount of time, but it took 2.5 h to make the pies and an average of 1min to peel each potato.
Let the number of potatoes be ‘x’.
Finding equation for Monday,
where ‘y’ is the total number of hours for completing all the work.
Finding equation for Tuesday,
It is given that on both days, the total time taken to complete the work is equal,
So,
So, the total number of potatoes in the bucket is 56.
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