An auto shop installed a new automatically to do paint jobs for cars. The system can paint 6 cars in 1/4 hour. How long does it take to paint 1 car?

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6 cars in 1/4 hourhence, 1 car in (1/4) / 6 hour = 0.042 hour


1/24 hour

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To find out how long it takes to paint 1 car, we need to understand the rate at which the system paints cars. The given information tells us that the system can paint 6 cars in 1/4 (or 0.25) hour.

To calculate the rate of painting per car, we can divide the total time taken by the number of cars painted. In this case, we divide 0.25 hour by 6 cars:

0.25 hour / 6 cars = 0.04167 hour per car

Therefore, it takes approximately 0.04167 hour (or roughly 2.5 minutes) to paint 1 car with this system.