Question

Michael takes 90 min to type 5850 words. If he increases his typing speed by 5 words/min, how many minutes will he take to type 10,500 words?

Answer 1

Help?

Answer 2

How many words/minute can he type before increasing it?

Answer 3

5?

Answer 4

No..take the words divided by number of minutes

5850/90=?

Answer 5

oh

Answer 6

what is it?

Answer 7

65

Answer 8

Yeah now thats the words per minute. increase it by 5

Answer 9

multiply

Answer 10

325

Answer 11

What is 65+5?

Answer 12

13

Answer 13

I think you should brush up on basic math before you do a problem like this.

Answer 14

excuse me ?

Answer 15

but that is not a choice

Answer 16

cant i make a proportion out of this

Answer 17

90 minutes to type 5850 words. If she increased her typing speed by 5 words/minute.....you have 90 minutes, increase by 5 words per minute...90 x 5 = 450. So she has increased her words by 450 which equals (5850 + 450) = 6300.
proportion time...
90/6300 = x/10,500 (cross multiply)
(6300)(x) = (90)(10,500)
6300x = 945000 (divide by 6300 on both sides)
6300x/6300 = 945000/6300
x = 150

ANSWER : It would take her 150 minutes to type 10,500 words

Answer 18

ok thank u u really r a life saver

Answer 19

I hope I did that right....I am looking at CalebBeavers solution...let me see if his answer will be the same when worked out.

Answer 20

g2g to sleep

Answer 21

bye

Answer 22

ut do it n ill check it tomorrow

Answer 23

bye

Answer 24

90/5850 = 1/x
90x = 5850
x = 65
increased by 5 words per minute = 70

1/70 = x/10,500
70x = 10500
x = 10500/70
x = 150

Thank God.....the same answer either way.

Answer 25

ok