A farmer picks 8 oranges in 2 minutes. The farmer continues to pick oranges at this rate. How many minutes does it take the farmer to pick 56 oranges?

it takes the farmer 14 minutes to pick 56 oranges.

Step-by-step explanation:

8 Oranges in 2 minutes. To find the number pick in 1 minute, we need to divide the number picked by the amount of time it took.

8/2=4

Now we know the farmer picks 4 oranges in a minute. So to fid how many minutes it took to pick a certain number of oranges, we need to divide that number by four.

56/4=14

I takes 14 minutes for the farmer to pick 56 oranges.

i found two solutions,   n = 2 • ± √3 = ± 3.4641

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