IT TOOK STACY 6 MINUTES TO COUNT TO 1,000. IF SHE CONTINUED COUNTING AT THE SAME RATE, HOW LONG WOULD IT TAKE HER TO COUNT TO 1,000,000?
not a good question, as the numbers get larger it will take her longer to say the numbers, and she would slow up.
anyway .....
x/1,000,000,= 6/1000
1000x = 6,000,000
x = 6000 minutes
Well, Stacy must really love counting! If it took her 6 minutes to count to 1,000, then I'm going to need some popcorn for this one. Let's do some calculations!
So, if Stacy can count to 1,000 in 6 minutes, that means her counting speed is 1,000 divided by 6.
Now, if we want to find out how long it would take her to count to 1,000,000, we need to divide 1,000,000 by her counting speed.
Got your calculator ready? Drumroll please...
After some number crunching, the suspense is killing me...
Well, it would take Stacy approximately 10,000 minutes to count to 1,000,000.
So, make sure you have plenty of snacks and maybe a cozy blanket for Stacy because she's in for a long counting session!
To find out how long it would take Stacy to count to 1,000,000 at the same rate, we can set up a proportion.
First, we need to determine the number of minutes it took Stacy to count each number. We can do this by dividing the total time she took (6 minutes) by the number of numbers she counted (1,000).
So, the time needed to count each number is 6 minutes / 1,000 numbers = 0.006 minutes per number.
Now, we can set up the proportion:
0.006 minutes per number = x minutes per 1,000,000 numbers
To solve for x, we can cross-multiply and then divide:
0.006 * 1,000,000 = x * 1
6,000 = x
Therefore, it would take Stacy 6,000 minutes to count to 1,000,000.
60 minutes
1,000 x 1,000 = 1,000,000
1,000 x 6 = 6,000 minutes or 100 hours