Alexa has a 177-page document ready to print. The company's printer runs out of paper after the first 4 minutes. Only 72 pages of the document have been printed. Alexa uses this rate to predict the time it will take to print the rest of the document after adding more paper to the printer.
Question
How many minutes will it take the printer to print the rest of the document based on the first 4 minutes? Round the answer to the nearest whole number. Enter the answer in the box.
We can start by finding the printer's rate of printing pages per minute:
72 pages / 4 minutes = 18 pages per minute
Now we can use this rate to predict how long it will take to print the rest of the document:
(177 pages - 72 pages) / (18 pages per minute) = 5.83 minutes
Rounding to the nearest whole number, it will take the printer about 6 minutes to print the rest of the document after adding more paper.
To find out how many minutes it will take the printer to print the rest of the document, we can calculate the rate at which the printer prints pages.
The printer prints 72 pages in 4 minutes. To find the rate per minute, we divide the number of pages by the number of minutes: 72 pages / 4 minutes = 18 pages per minute.
Since the printer is out of paper after the first 4 minutes, it will take the printer 177 - 72 = 105 pages to finish printing the document.
To calculate the time it will take to print the remaining pages based on the rate of 18 pages per minute, we divide the number of remaining pages by the rate: 105 pages / 18 pages per minute = 5.8333 minutes.
Rounding to the nearest whole number, it will take the printer approximately 6 minutes to print the rest of the document.
To answer this question, we need to find out how many pages per minute the printer is printing based on the first 4 minutes. Then we can use that rate to estimate the time it will take to print the rest of the document.
First, we need to calculate the number of pages printed per minute. We know that after 4 minutes, only 72 pages have been printed. So we can divide 72 by 4 to find the rate of pages printed per minute.
72 pages / 4 minutes = 18 pages per minute
Now we know that the printer prints 18 pages per minute.
Next, we need to calculate how many pages are left to print. We know that the document is 177 pages long and 72 pages have already been printed. So we subtract 72 from 177 to find out how many pages are left.
177 pages - 72 pages = 105 pages
Now we know that there are 105 pages left to print.
Finally, we can use the rate of 18 pages per minute to estimate the time it will take to print the remaining pages. We divide the number of pages left by the printing rate.
105 pages / 18 pages per minute ≈ 5.833 minutes
Rounding to the nearest whole number, we get:
5.833 minutes ≈ 6 minutes
Therefore, it will take approximately 6 minutes for the printer to print the rest of the document after adding more paper.