Question

Once a week, Dianne spends 5 hours making windchimes.
It takes her 30 minutes to make a small windchime and 40
minutes to make a large windchime. This week, Dianne
will make twice as many small windchimes as large
windchimes. How many of the small windchimes will
Dianne make this week?

Answer 1

Let's take No. of large windchime be x

then no. of small windchime be 2x

now, time taken to make one large windchime is 40min and time taken to make one small windchime is 30min.

Total time is 5 hours = 300 min

so time taken to make all large chimes= 40x

time taken to make small chimes = 30*2x= 60x

total time = 300 min

40x + 60x = 300

100x = 300

x = 300/100

x = 3

total small windchimes = 2x = 2*3=6

total large windchimes = x = 3.

so I hope it's helpful. It really took some time