A pasta factory made 925.7 pounds of pasta in 62 minutes. To the nearest tenth of a pound, how much pasta, on average, did the factory make each minute?

Question

pounds

Answer 1

To find the average amount of pasta made per minute by the factory, you can divide the total amount of pasta by the total time in minutes.

Given:

• Total pasta = 925.7 pounds
• Total time = 62 minutes

The formula for average pasta made per minute is:

$$\text{Average per minute}=\frac{\text{Total pasta}}{\text{Total time}}=\frac{925.7\text{ pounds}}{62\text{ minutes}}$$

Now, calculating this:

$$\frac{925.7}{62}\approx 14.9$$

Therefore, the pasta factory made approximately 14.9 pounds of pasta per minute, to the nearest tenth of a pound.