For a Thanksgiving food drive, volunteers packed 50 boxes of food in 20 minutes. How many boxes did they pack per minute?(1 point)
Responses
2.5 minutes/box
2.5 minutes/box
0.4 boxes/minute
0.4 boxes/minute
0.4 minutes/box
0.4 minutes/box
2.5 boxes/minute
2.5 boxes/minute
To find out how many boxes were packed per minute, divide the total number of boxes (50) by the total time it took to pack them (20 minutes).
50 boxes / 20 minutes = 2.5 boxes/minute
Therefore, the volunteers packed 2.5 boxes per minute.
To find the number of boxes packed per minute, you can divide the total number of boxes packed (50) by the time taken (20 minutes).
So, 50 boxes / 20 minutes = 2.5 boxes/minute.
Therefore, the volunteers packed 2.5 boxes per minute for the Thanksgiving food drive.