Question

The Volunteer Club raked leaves at several senior citizens’ homes in the neighborhood. If each group of three students could remove 8 cubic meters of leaves in one hour, find the integer to represent the number of cubic meters of leaves 12 students could remove in 5 hours.

Answer 1

12 students would create 4 groups, if they get 8 cubic meters per hour and they have 5 hours, the equasion would look like: (8*5)*4)=160. They would clear 160 cubic meters in 5 hours.