Louise works as a Fractional Finance Director and one of her clients is a manufacturing SME.
The company makes storage boxes.
A machine in their factory makes 15 boxes in 12 minutes.
The machine works continuously.
Work out how many boxes are made by this machine in 7 hours.
Answer:
First change 7 hours into minutes by multiplying by 60 to get 420 minutes
Then divide 420 by 12 to get 35
Multiply 35 by 15 to find the number of boxes to get 525.