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by phoenix9801 » Mon May 07, 2012 9:46 am
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Question 3:

If Factory produces 1.500 light bulbs in one minute, how many light bulbs will it produce in t seconds?

A) 1,500t
B) 25t
C) 25/t
D) 750/t
C) 90,000/t

My Question how you solve that if you pick numbers like T=60 to solve t seconds?



Question 5:

A group of 10 people decides to share equally in an apartment that costs r dollars to rent each month. If X people drop out of the group, how much more, in dollars, must each remaining person pay?

A) rx/ 10(10-x)
B) 10r/x
C) r/10(10-x)
D) r/10-x
E) rx/10-x

My questions is when picking number if choose to pick r= 100 and x=4 it does not work why, but if choose r=100 and x=5 to solve it works perfectly and the answers is A. Can you explain in detail why?

For example 10-5= 5 people are left. So, 100/10 = 10 and 1005= 20. Then 20 - 10 = 10. Then I check which answer chooses work A is the answer. but don't know when R=100 and X= 6 it does not work?
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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Mon May 07, 2012 10:55 am
3. 1,500 lightbulbs per minute can be divided by 60 seconds to give you 25 bulbs per second. We can then multiply by t to find the total number of lightbulbs. Thus, the answer is 25t.

5. Originally, each person pays r/10. After x people drop out, each remaining person pays r/(10-x). The difference in dollars is r/(10-x) - r/10.

If we use r=100 and x=4, then the difference i dollars is 100/(10-4) - 100/10, or 100/6 - 10 or 16.66 - 10, which is $6.66. Choice A would be (100*4)/(10(10-4) = 400/60 = 6.66, so it works.
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by phoenix9801 » Mon May 07, 2012 1:04 pm
Thank you for your help
Bill@VeritasPrep wrote:3. 1,500 lightbulbs per minute can be divided by 60 seconds to give you 25 bulbs per second. We can then multiply by t to find the total number of lightbulbs. Thus, the answer is 25t.

5. Originally, each person pays r/10. After x people drop out, each remaining person pays r/(10-x). The difference in dollars is r/(10-x) - r/10.

If we use r=100 and x=4, then the difference i dollars is 100/(10-4) - 100/10, or 100/6 - 10 or 16.66 - 10, which is $6.66. Choice A would be (100*4)/(10(10-4) = 400/60 = 6.66, so it works.