During the summer, Kurt works on his uncle's goat farm. One of Kurt's many chores is to milk the goats. The proportional relationship between the number of hours milking, x, and the number of goats milked by Kurt, y, can be modeled by the equation y = 6x.

If Kurt milked 21 goats, how many hours did it take?

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Erica Pearson

Mathematics

26 November, 00:10

During the summer, Kurt works on his uncle's goat farm. One of Kurt's many chores is to milk the goats. The proportional relationship between the number of hours milking, x, and the number of goats milked by Kurt, y, can be modeled by the equation y = 6x.

If Kurt milked 21 goats, how many hours did it take?

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Ahmed Rosario · Answer 1

2 hours and 20 minutes or 2 and 1/3 hours

Step-by-step explanation:

So if Kurt milked 21 goats, you can replace y with 21, creating the equation:

21 = 6x

x = 21/6 = 7/3 = 2 hours and 20 minutes