SAT官方每日一题:2012年4月6日
2012年04月06日
考试类型: Mathematics > Standard Multiple Choice
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A machine can insert letters in envelopes at the rate of per minute. Another machine can stamp the envelopes at the rate of per second. How many such stamping machines are needed to keep up with inserting machines of this kind?
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正确答案:A 解析: First you can change minute to seconds so that the ratios are both in envelopes per second. One inserting machine inserts letters at the rate of per seconds, or per second. So machines would insert letters per second. Let be the number of stamping machines needed to keep up with inserting machines. Then, since one machine stamps envelopes per second, machines stamp envelopes per second. You can write the equation , which gives .
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