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 boxes/minute
2.5 boxes/minute
0.4 boxes/minute
0.4 boxes/minute
0.4 minutes/box
0.4 minutes/box
2.5 minutes/box
2.5 minutes/box
To find out how many boxes were packed per minute, divide the total number of boxes by the total number of minutes.
50 boxes of food / 20 minutes = 2.5 boxes per minute.
So the correct answer is:
2.5 boxes/minute