2001 CEMC Gauss (Grade 8) Problems/Problem 10
Problem
Rowena is able to mow of a lawn in
minutes. If she began the job at
, and mowed at this same constant rate, when did she finish mowing the entire lawn?
Solution 1
Let be the number of minutes that it takes for Rowena to mow
whole lawn. We then have:
minutes
Since it takes minutes to mow the lawn, she would have finished
minutes after
Thus, she
finished at
~anabel.disher
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