Amita and Balu applied for a typing job. Amita can type $120$ words per minute while Balu can type $80$ words in $50$ seconds. The employer wants to select the one with the fastest typing speed. Who would get the job?

Amita

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Balu

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Both Amita and Balu, since their rate of typing is same

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Solution

The correct option is A
Amita

This is a simple problem which would explain how "rates” are useful. So useful that sometimes they decide whether a person is fit for a job or not!!

To solve this we need the ratios of the number of words typed in a certain fragment of time.

This ratio (or rate) for Amita would be $\frac{120 w o r d s}{60 s e c o n d s} = 2$ and for Balu it would be $\frac{80 w o r d s}{50 s e c o n d s} = 1.6$ .

Therefore, Amita types faster than Balu.

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