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  • 11-02-2019
  • Mathematics
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a carpet layer can put down 400 square feet of carpeting in 2.5 hours. How many hours will it take him to lay 600 square feet of carpet

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hroscoe
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  • 11-02-2019
You can set it up like:

400/2.5 = 600/x; now cross multiply
400x = 2.5(600)
400x = 1,500; now divide both sides by 400 to isolate the x, and you get x = 3.75 hours
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