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A conveyor belt moves bottles at a constant speed of 120 centimeters per second. If the conveyor belt moves a bottle from a loading dock to an unloading dock, is the distance that the conveyor belt moves the bottle less than 90 meters? (1 meter = 100 centimeters)
1) It takes the conveyor belt less than 1.2 minutes to move the bottle from the loading dock to the unloading dock.
2) It takes the conveyor belt more than 1.1 minutes to move the bottle from the loading dock to the unloading dock.
Given rate: 120 centimeters per second.
Since the statements are in terms of MINUTES, calculate the number of minutes required to move the bottle 90 meters:
90
meters * (100
centimeters)/(1
meter) * (1
second)/(120
centimeters) * (1 minute)/(60
seconds) = (90)/(12*6) = 15/12 = 5/4 = 1.25 minutes
In the conversion above, all of the colored units CANCEL OUT, yielding a result in terms of minutes.
Implication of the yielded result:
For the bottle to be moved 90 meters, the time = 1.25 minutes.
Thus, for the bottle to be moved LESS THAN 90 METERS, the time must be LESS THAN 1.25 MINUTES.
Question stem, rephrased:
Is t < 1.25?
Statement 1:
Since t < 1.2, the answer to the rephrased question stem is YES.
SUFFICIENT.
Statement 2:
If t = 1.2, the answer to the rephrased question stem is YES.
If t = 1.3, the answer to the rephrased question stem is NO.
INSUFFICIENT.
The correct answer is
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