Question

The employees of a candy company are passing out candy at a rate of 6 pieces per 3 seconds and have already passed out 120 pieces. If the company started with 4,320 pieces, how many minutes will it take the employees to run out of candy?

2,100
2,220
37
35

Answer 1

Hm....let me think a moment, 'kay?

Answer 2

ok

Answer 3

Okay, so first find rate/constant right?
do the same thing we've done before.
p = pieces
s = seconds
k = constant
\(\large p=ks\)

Answer 4

"a rate of 6 pieces per 3 seconds "
6 = p
3 = s
Solve for k

Answer 5

2

Answer 6

or multi

Answer 7

right

Answer 8

"have already passed out 120 pieces. If the company started with 4,320 pieces, how many minutes will it take the employees to run out of candy?"

to find the value to plug into the equation for p, we need to do this:
\(\large 4320-120=p\)

Answer 9

4200

Answer 10

right. plug in 2 for k and 4200 for p in the equation
\(\large p=ks\)

Answer 11

solve for s

Answer 12

2100

Answer 13

A :)))

Answer 14

right. now we're not done. we have to convert to minutes

Answer 15

not A

Answer 16

how many seconds in a minute?

Answer 17

oh lolll

Answer 18

60

Answer 19

right. so divide 2100 by 60 to convert to minutes

Answer 20

ok

Answer 21

35

Answer 22

right. D

Answer 23

can i say one thing

Answer 24

:)))) now im happy lol

Answer 25

@ashsek ya sure

Answer 26

sure @ashsek

Answer 27

my answer is comming different its 37 accourding to me

Answer 28

did you remember to subtract 120 from 4320?

Answer 29

cause if you didn't then you'd get 37

Answer 30

why would we subtract

Answer 31

ya its 35

Answer 32

cause it said "have already passed out 120 pieces" and "started with 4,320 pieces"

Answer 33

okay thanks

Answer 34

:)