a certain printer can print at the rate of 80 characters per second, and there is an average (aritmetic mean) of 2,400 characters per page. If the printer continued to print at this rate, how many minutes would it take to print an M-page report?

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anonymous · Answer

If it takes 1 second to print 80 characters.  How many seconds to print 2400 characters?

anonymous · Answer

How many seconds in a minute?

anonymous · Answer

60 seconds

anonymous · Answer

Easy math: so 3 seconds to print a page.  60 seconds in a minute, so the ratio is 3/60 minutes per page.  So for an M-page report it would be 1/20 minute*M

anonymous · Answer

does this make sense?

anonymous · Answer

wouldn't it be 30 seconds to print a page?

anonymous · Answer

but yea i get it now.

anonymous · Answer

oh maybe, i wasn't really thinking.  so even easier math!  so it would be 30/60 minutes per page so 1/2minutes*M

anonymous · Answer

I am glad you get it now!

anonymous · Answer

yea its just the question was a bit wordy

anonymous · Answer

Word problems can be that way.  :p