Question

COMMUNITY SERVICE Every year students at West High School collect canned goods for a local food pantry. They plan to distribute flyers to homes in the community asking for donations. Last year, 12 students were able to distribute 1000 flyers in four hours.

Answer 1

The question is incomplete, the complete question is;

Every year students at West High School collect canned goods for a local food pantry. They plan to distribute flyers to homes in the community asking for donations. Last year, 12 students were able to distribute 1000 flyers in four hours. How long would it take 15 students to hand out the same number of flyers this year?

Answer:

t = 48/s

3.2 hours

Step-by-step explanation:

This must be an inverse relation because it will definitely take more students to distribute the flyers in  less time.

So;

Let the number of students be s

Let the time to distribute the flyers be t

s α 1/t

s = k/t

t = k/s

The question said that it takes 12 students takes 4 hours to distribute 1000 flyers.

So;

4 = k/12

k = 48

Hence,

t = 48/s

When s= 15

t = 48/15

t = 3.2 hours