Question

CHTempco Corporation has a machine that produces121, baseball gloves each hour. In the last 2 days, the machine has run for a total of 22 hours. How many baseball gloves has Tempcoproduced?Number of baseball gloves

Answer 1

2684

1) Considering that the pace of the machine is constant, then we can write down the following ratios:

$\begin{gathered} \text{baseball gloves-------hour} \\ 121------------1 \\ x-------------22 \\ \frac{121}{x}=\frac{1}{22} \\ x=22\cdot122 \\ x=2684 \end{gathered}$

Note that the production is proportionally related to the hours the machine is on. So, we could write these ratios and cross multiply them.

2) Thus, the Tempco Corp produced 2684 gloves