Need Help!!!

[faran]

If it takes 12 workers working independently 3 hours to make 500 boxes, how many minutes should it take for 16 workers
to make 300 boxes?
Please tell me the method to solve this.

 

[JeffM]

If it takes 12 workers working independently 3 hours to make 500 boxes, how many minutes should it take for 16 workers
to make 300 boxes?
Please tell me the method to solve this.

The method is called "thinking."

If 12 workers can make 500 boxes in 3 hours, how many can one worker make in three hours?

So how many can one worker make in one hour?

So how many can sixteen workers make in one hour?

So how many hours will it take those sixteen workers to make 500 boxes?

What is that in minutes?


So, if you know the number of workers and the number of boxes