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Gabriel works at an amusement park. He loads 15 new passengers onto the roller coaster every 5/6 of a minute. At what rate does Gabriel
load passengers?

Please solve this for 15 points

Respuesta :

Answer:

[tex]\frac{3}{10}[/tex] passengers/second

Step-by-step explanation:

Every 5/6 of a minute is actually every 50 seconds.

So, to find the number of passengers per second, we just divide [tex]\frac{number-of-passengers}{per-amount-of-time}[/tex], which is [tex]\frac{15}{50}[/tex] which can be simplified to [tex]\frac{3}{10}[/tex] as a fraction or 0.333 as a decimal.