Question

Person 1 writes internal operating procedures 3 times faster than Person 2. Most of the procedures took 30 minutes each to create, but two of the procedures for Person 1 took an hour each. Calculate how long it took Person 1 to complete 9 procedures.

Answer 1

Person 1 takes 3 hour 10 minutes to complete 9 procedures

Solution:

From given question,

Person 2 takes 30 minutes per procedure

Person 1 writes internal operating procedures 3 times faster than Person 2

So we get, Person 1 takes 3 times faster than Person 2

Person 1 takes 10 minutes per procedure

But two of the procedures for Person 1 took an hour each

So person 1 takes 60 minutes each for two of procedures ( since 1 hour = 60 minutes )

Calculate how long it took Person 1 to complete 9 procedures:

So for first 7 procedures person 1 would take 10 minutes per procedure and for last two procedures person 1 would take 60 minutes per procedure

$time =7 procedures \times \frac{10 \text { minutes }}{1 \text { procedure }}+2 procedure \times \frac{60 \text { minutes }}{1 \text { procedure }}$

$time=70 minutes +120minutes\\\\time=190minutes$

We know that,

1 hour = 60 minutes

Therefore,

190 minutes = 60 minutes + 60 minutes + 60 minutes + 10 minutes

190 minutes = 1 hour + 1 hour + 1 hour + 10 minutes = 3 hour 10 minutes

Therefore Person 1 takes 3 hour 10 minutes to complete 9 procedures