The staff at Larry's Lawns spends their workday mowing lawns, raking, and bagging leaves. They work an average of nine hours per day. The mowing and raking typically takes six hours and an average of sixty 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?
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The staff at Larry's Lawns spends their workday mowing lawns, raking, and bagging leaves. They work an average of nine hours per day. The mowing and raking typically takes six hours and an average of sixty 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?
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anonymous · Answer

The mowing and raking typically takes six hours, so bagging is done in remaining 3 hours. 
60 bags in 3 hours so 1 bag = 3hrs/60 bags 
= 3*60 mins/60 bags = 3 mins for bag 1 bag