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Please help!! Word problems!?

Hello i am currently stuck on these two insanely hard problems and have been for hours. Just cant seem to get the answers for these two out of the dozen that i had to do. Please help me solve them and show how you got the answers if possible. Thank You!

1. Suppose 5 cooks, all working at the same speed can peel 7 potatoes all the same size in 3 1/2 minutes. How long would it take 7 cooks to grate 21 potatoes? Please answer in minutes and seconds.

2. Shelly's jungle juice calls for 1 1/2 times as much 100 proof Mexican rum as 80 proof Puerto Rican rum, both added to Sunny Delight (which has no alcohol). But Shelly's boyfriend Paul cannot handle even 2 ounces of alcohol but he always wants to have a 8oz glass of the jungle juice. In the world of alcoholic beverages, every 2 proof is 1 % alcohol. If Shelly uses 96 oz of Sunny Delight, what is the maximum number of Mexican rum she can put in the jungle juice? Please round down to the nearest whole number.

Please show how you got the answers. Greatly appreciated!

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  • 10 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    1.

    Potatoes per cook in 3.5 min: 7/5= 1.4

    21 / 7 = 3 potatoes per cook

    1.4 x 3 = 4.2 min or 4 minutes and 12 seconds

    2. Too long of a question my attention span gave out sorry. They shouldnt have alcohol related question anyways!

    Source(s): AP calc
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    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    What shapes do you get whilst you break up the rectangular with a diagonal? Two trangles. Since we all know the area is a rectangular, that implies the entire aspects are same (thus, if you recognize one aspect, you recognize the entire aspects). So now you could have a trangle with 2 aspects same to 60 toes. You can now use Pythagorean's theorem: A (squared) + B(squared) = C (squared) A and B are your 2 aspects and then you definately simply clear up for C. Good good fortune!

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