Once a month, volunteers from the Green Sea Club clean up litter at the beach. Last month, the volunteers picked up 8 pounds of trash in 4 hours. This month, the same group of volunteers will spend 3 hours picking up trash.

Question

If they pick up trash at the same rate, how many pounds of trash should the volunteers pick up this month?
pounds

Answer 1

To find out how many pounds of trash the volunteers should pick up this month, we can set up a proportion:

4 hours / 8 pounds = 3 hours / x pounds

First, we can cross multiply:

4 * x = 8 * 3

4x = 24

Then, we can solve for x:

x = 24 / 4
x = 6

So, the volunteers should pick up 6 pounds of trash this month.