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The Crayola crayon company can make 2400 crayons in 4 minutes. How many crayons can they make in 15 minutes? Solve this problem by setting up a proportion. Show your work.

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NerdyGurl
So, The Crayola Crayon company can make 2400 crayons in 4 minutes. In other words, every 4 minutes they can make 2400 crayons, right? So, in 15 minutes how many would they have made? Well, what we do is we divide 15 by 4 which is 3.75. Then we multiply the result, 3.75, by 2400. 3.75 * 9000. So, in 15 minutes, Crayola  would have made 900 crayons!

4/2400 = 15/x

Step 1: Cross Multiply

4/2400 = 15/x

4 * x = (15) * (2400)

4x = 36000

Step 2: Divide both sides by 2

4x/4 = 36000/2

x = 9000

The answer is, 9000!!! :D
samuelonum1

By applying the cross multiplication methods, we found that it will take 15 minutes to produce 9000 crayons

Word Problems

Given Data

  • Number of crayons = 2400
  • Time taken to make 2400  crayons = 4 minutes
  • Let the number of crayons made in 15 minutes be = x

if  2400  crayons are made in 4 minutes

then x crayons will take 15 minutes

Cross multiplying we have

2400*15 = 4x

36000 = 4x

divide both side by 4 we have

x = 36000/4

x = 9000 crayons

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