The staff at Larry's Lawns spends their workday mowing lawns, raking, and bagging leaves. They work an average of twelve hours per day. The mowing and raking typically takes eight hours and an average of forty-eight bags of leaves are filled. Assuming the bags are filled at a constant rate, what is the average time it takes to fill one bag of leaves?

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Benjamin Franklin

17 January, 09:20

The staff at Larry's Lawns spends their workday mowing lawns, raking, and bagging leaves. They work an average of twelve hours per day. The mowing and raking typically takes eight hours and an average of forty-eight bags of leaves are filled. Assuming the bags are filled at a constant rate, what is the average time it takes to fill one bag of leaves?

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Stanley Hatfield · Answer 1

12 hrs are spent Not bagging leaves, therefore 4 hrs are spent Bagging leaves.

They fill 48 bags.

4/48 = 1/12

The avg time to fill one bag is 1/12 of hour or 60/12 = 5 min.