A machine can label 339 jars in 3 hours. If the rate of the machine was doubled, how many jars would be labeled in 11 hours at the new rate?

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Rafael Holder

2 October, 20:07

A machine can label 339 jars in 3 hours. If the rate of the machine was doubled, how many jars would be labeled in 11 hours at the new rate?

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Gillespie · Answer 1

339/3=113.

therefore the original rate is 113 labels/hour.

If this was doubled, the new rate would be 226 labels/hour.

In eleven hours there would be 226x11=2486

2486 jars would be labelled.

You could do this in quite a few different ways.