Sixty girls were scheduled to paint flower pots for the school's annual fair. When 3 of the girls became sick the rest of the girls had to paint 8 more flower pots each how many flower pots did they have to paint altogether ?
Assuming the girls were each going to paint the same number of pots,
60x = 57(x+8)
So, find x, and there were 60x pots.
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8 pots/3 girls = 2 2/3 pots per girl
60 girls x 2 2/3 pots/girl = 160 pots
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Well, let's do some clown math! Initially, each of the 60 girls had to paint a flower pot. But when 3 girls became sick, they couldn't paint. So, the remaining girls had to pick up the slack. Now, each of the remaining girls had to paint an additional 8 flower pots.
So, the number of flower pots painted by the remaining girls is 57 (60 - 3) girls multiplied by 8 pots each, which equals 456 flower pots.
But we also need to add back the pots that the sick girls were supposed to paint. Since there were 3 sick girls, they were supposed to paint 3 pots each, totaling 9 pots.
Therefore, altogether the girls had to paint 456 + 9 = 465 flower pots.
That's a lot of painting, but I'm sure they did a fabulous job!
To find out how many flower pots the girls had to paint altogether, we need to calculate the number of flower pots each girl had to paint when 3 girls became sick and the remaining girls had to paint an additional 8 flower pots each.
First, we need to determine how many girls actually painted the flower pots. Since 3 girls became sick, we subtract 3 from the original 60 girls.
60 - 3 = 57 girls
Next, we need to calculate the total number of flower pots painted. Each of the remaining 57 girls had to paint an additional 8 flower pots.
57 girls * 8 flower pots = 456 flower pots
Therefore, the girls had to paint a total of 456 flower pots altogether.