It takes 3 sloths 30 minutes to eat 5 globs of sweet potatoe

Solution

It takes 3 sloths 30 minutes to eat 5 globs of sweet potatoes

we need to find how long it takes 5 sloths to eat 3 globs of sweet potatoes.

first we will find how lomg it takes 5 sloths to eat 5 globs of sweet potatoes.

we can use

sloths * time = sloths * time

3 * 30 = 5 * t

t = 3 * 30/5

t = 3 *6

t = 18

so we can say that it takes 18 minutes for 5 sloths to eat 5 globs of sweet potatoes.

now we need to find how long it takes for 5 sloths to eat 3 globs of sweet potatoes.

we can say that 5 sloths will eat 5/18 globs in one minute.

so in another way 5 sloths can eat 5/18 globs of sweet potatoes in 1 minute

we can say that 5 sloths can eat 3 potatoes in 3 * 18/5 = 54/5 = 10.8 minutes

or we can use time/globs = time/globs

18/5 = t/3

t = 3* 18/5 = 54/5 = 10.8 minutes

so we can say that 5 sloths will eat 3 globs of sweet potatoes in 10.8 minutes

we can convert 10.8 minutes to equivalent minutes and seconds like

10.8 = 10minutes + 0.8 minutes

we know that 1 minutes = 60 seconds so 0.8 = 8/10 minutes = 8/10 * 60 seeocnds = 48 seconds

so we can say that 10.8 minutes = 10 minutes 48 seconds.

so we can say that 5 sloths will eat 3 globs of sweet potatoes in 10 minutes 48 seconds