Homework Help Forum: arithmetic

Posted by Sam on Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 4:40am.

If a person smokes 20 cigarettes in a day for 58 years of their life, how many cigarettes do they smoke? If each cigarette reduces a person's life by 5 minutes, by how many days is a person's life reduced if they smoke 20 cigarettes a day for 58years of their life? Please can you help me to solve? Am having trouble working out the second part. Thanks Sam

• arithmetic - drwls, Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 6:37am

  Part 1: 58 years will probably include 15 leap years, so the number of days is (58x365) + 18 = 21,188 Multiply that by 20 for the number of cigarettes smoked: 423,760 Part 2: Multiply 423,760 by 5 for the number of minutes that the length of life is reduced, and convert numbewr of minutes that to years. I get about 4 years.

  
  

• arithmetic - Sam, Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 7:03am

  Thank you

  
  

• arithmetic - Rachael, Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 9:01am

  423760

  
  

• arithmetic - Rachael, Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 9:02am

  1.423760 2.4 years

  
  

Answer this Question

First Name:
School Subject:
Answer: