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
0.4 boxes/minute
0.4 boxes/minute
2.5 boxes/minute
2.5 boxes/minute
2.5 minutes/box
2.5 minutes/box
0.4 minutes/box
To find out how many boxes were packed per minute, we divide the total number of boxes packed (50) by the total time it took to pack them (20 minutes).
50 boxes ÷ 20 minutes = 2.5 boxes/minute
Therefore, the correct answer is: 2.5 boxes/minute.