A printer can print forty-five pages in 9 minutes. At that rate, how many pages can the printer print in fourteen minutes?

Question

A printer can print forty-five  pages in 9 minutes. At that rate, how many pages can the printer print in fourteen minutes?

anonymous · Answer

Find the amount of pages the printer prints per minute and multiply that by 14.

anonymous · Answer

fifty pages 

 fifty-nine  pages 

 seventy pages 

 eighty pages

e.cociuba · Answer

Answer: C) 70 pages

e.cociuba · Answer

45 pages / 9 minutes = 5 * 14 minutes = 70 pages, or you can cross multiple
45 pages * 14 minutes = 630 / 9 minutes = 70 pages

mathstudent55 · Answer

Use a proportion:
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| pages     |  45   |    x  |
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| minutes  |   9    |   14 |
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45:9 = x:14
45/9 = x/14
Cross multiply and solve for x.