A checkout clerk at a department store is expected to complete 16 transactions every hour. In the past 20 minutes, he completed 6 transactions. Assume that the clerk continues to work at the same rate. Will he meet his goal of 16 transactions in 1 hour? Explain.
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; the checkout clerk will complete
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transactions in 1 hour.
20 minutes out of 60 min is 1/3 of an hour if he did 6 transactions already multiply 6 by 3 in order to go from 1/3 of an hour to 1 hour flat. So he will do 18 transactions in the hour if he works at the same rate.
