The staff at Larry's Lawns spends their workday mowing lawns, raking, and bagging leaves. They work an average of twelve hours per day. The mowing and raking typically takes eight hours and an average of eighty bags of leaves are filled. Assuming the bags are filled at a constant rate, what is the average time it takes to fill one bag of leaves?

2 minutes
4 minutes
3 minutes
5 minutes

Question

The staff at Larry's Lawns spends their workday mowing lawns, raking, and bagging leaves. They work an average of twelve hours per day. The mowing and raking typically takes eight hours and an average of eighty bags of leaves are filled. Assuming the bags are filled at a constant rate, what is the average time it takes to fill one bag of leaves?

    2 minutes
    4 minutes
    3 minutes
    5 minutes

anonymous · Answer

What is the relationship between the time spend mowing and the amount of bags filled?

shamil98 · Answer

The mowing and raking takes 8 hours, and they work 12 hours a day so it takes 4 hours to bag them.
They bag 80 bags in those 4 hours then..

anonymous · Answer

B 4 minutes

shamil98 · Answer

80/4 = 20 bags per hour

60 minutes in an hour

20/60 = 0.333333
average time, i would round down i guess to get 3 minutes..