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Supposed it takes 5 seconds for one to read an e-mail, 60 seconds to write and send it and 10 seconds to retrieve all e-mails from the servers.

How long does it take (in second) for a secretary to read and answer all 100 e-mails that was sent to her company last night?

Assumption

  • There was no new e-mail nor spam on that day.
  • All e-mails was retrieved at once.


The answer is 6510.

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1 solution

Evan Huynh
Jan 9, 2016
  • To retrieve all emails: 10 10 seconds
  • To read all emails: 5 × 100 = 500 5 \times 100 = 500 seconds
  • To answer all emails: 60 × 100 = 6000 60 \times 100 = 6000 seconds

Total: 10 + 500 + 6000 = 6510 10 + 500 + 6000 = 6510 seconds

Basic but nice!

Akhash Raja Raam - 5 years ago

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