It takes 4 people 20 minutes to load 10 items on to a truck. How many items can 8 people load in one hour?

Question

It takes 4 people 20 minutes to load 10 items on to a truck. How many items can 8 people load in one hour?

Answer 1

# People       # minutes       # items

4                   20                 10

4                   60                 30

8                   60                 60

 

It is easy to obtain the answer by using a table as indicated above assuming all people work at the same rate.