at rush hour,240 people pass through a turnstile at a railway station each 5 minutes.If there are 8 turnstiles, how many people would pass through them all in an hour

1 hr * 60 min/hr * 240 people/turnstile/5min * 8 turnstile = 23040 people/hr

An hour consists of 12 5-minute periods.

240 * 8 * 12 = ?

To find out how many people would pass through all 8 turnstiles in an hour, we first need to determine how many people pass through a single turnstile in 1 minute, and then multiply that by the number of minutes in an hour.

Given that 240 people pass through a turnstile every 5 minutes, we can find the number of people passing through a single turnstile in 1 minute by dividing 240 by 5:
240 ÷ 5 = 48

So, on average, 48 people pass through a single turnstile in 1 minute.

To calculate how many people would pass through all 8 turnstiles in 1 hour, we multiply the number of people passing through a single turnstile in 1 minute by the number of minutes in an hour (60):
48 (people/minute) × 60 (minutes/hour) = 2880

Therefore, 2880 people would pass through all 8 turnstiles in 1 hour.