An ice cream factory makes 140 quarts of ice cream in 10 hours. How many quarts could be made in 36 hours? What was that rate per day?

Answer 1

Use a proportion and cross multiply.

140/10=x/36

10x=5040

x=504 quarts in 36 hours

504/36=14 quarts per hour

14x24=336 quarts per day