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SAT官方每日一题:2012年4月6日

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2012年04月06日

  考试类型: Mathematics > Standard Multiple Choice

  Read the following SAT test question and then click on a button to select your answer.

  A machine can insert letters in envelopes at the rate of 120  per minute. Another machine can stamp the envelopes at the rate of  per 3 second. How many such stamping machines are needed to keep up with  18 inserting machines of this kind?

  A.12 

  B.16 

  C.20 

  D.22 

  E.24 

正确答案:A

解析:

First you can change 1 minute to 60 seconds so that the ratios are both in envelopes per second. One inserting machine inserts letters at the rate of 120 per 60 seconds, or 2 per second. So 18 machines would insert 36 letters per second.

Let x be the number of stamping machines needed to keep up with 18 inserting machines. Then, since one machine stamps 3 envelopes per second, x machines stamp 3 times x envelopes per second. You can write the equation 3 times x = 36, which gives x = 12