Tame Valley is a company that makes yoghurt.
A machine fills trays of 20 pots with yoghurt.
In one hour, the machine fills a total of 15 000 pots.
Work out how many seconds the machine takes to fill each tray of 20 pots.
To find out how many seconds the machine takes to fill each tray of 20 pots, we need to divide the total time by the number of trays filled in that time.
Since the machine fills 15,000 pots in one hour, we can calculate the number of trays filled by dividing this number by 20 (the number of pots in each tray):
Number of trays filled = 15,000 pots / 20 pots per tray = 750 trays
Since there are 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute, we can convert the time taken to seconds:
Time taken in seconds = 1 hour * 60 minutes per hour * 60 seconds per minute = 3,600 seconds
Now, to calculate how many seconds the machine takes to fill each tray, we divide the total time taken (3,600 seconds) by the number of trays filled (750 trays):
Seconds to fill each tray = 3,600 seconds / 750 trays = 4.8 seconds (rounded to the nearest tenth)
Therefore, the machine takes approximately 4.8 seconds to fill each tray of 20 pots.