A platter has 52 vegetarian mini-quiches. When a certain conference concludes, the number of mini-quiches on this platter decreases by 8 every two and a half minutes. How many mini-quiches remain after twelve and a half minutes have passed?
The correct answer is (A).
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We could start our work here by dividing 12.5 by 2.5 to determine how many time intervals we’re dealing with. Doing so, we arrive at 5. We then can multiply 5 by 8, since we know that 3 mini-quiches are taken every 2.5 minute time interval. Lastly, we can take the 40 that we just got and subtract it from 52 to arrive at our correct answer of (A).
We are fans of other ways to approach this question. And, obviously these particular vegetarian mini-quiches were quite tasty.🥧🌱✨