Apple Pickers
Algebra
Level
2
If five apple pickers can pick five apples in five seconds, how many apple pickers would it take to pick sixty apples a minute?
The answer is 5.
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1 solution
There would be just 5 apple pickers. The same pickers who can pick 5 apples in 5 seconds can pick 60 apples in 60 seconds ; they average an apple a second