Gabe has already spent 2 minutes on the phone, and he expects to spend 1 more minute with every phone call he routes. In all, how many phone calls does Gabe have to route to spend a total of 37 minutes on the phone?
Mathematics · High School · Tue Nov 03 2020
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Given the statement:
Gabe has already spent 2 minutes on the phone, and he expects to spend 1 more minute with every phone call he routes.
Solution:
We can see that there is a proportion on the amount spent of the phone calls and to amount spent as he routes. This can be represented as 2:1, hence if Gabe spent 37 minutes on the phone to route, then we multiply 37 by 2 in order to find the time spend on phone calls.
= (37)(2)
= 74 minutes
Final answer:
Gabe spent 74 minutes on phone calls