A 12 pound turkey takes about 180 minutes to cook. How many hours would it take to cook a 20 pound turkey?

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Abbigail Dean

Mathematics

12 April, 10:35

A 12 pound turkey takes about 180 minutes to cook. How many hours would it take to cook a 20 pound turkey?

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Jaylen Stephenson · Answer 1

These are ratios, which are technically equal to each other. So, you can set up the problem like this:

12/180=20/x

180*20=3600

3600/12=300

So, it would take 300 minutes.