Question

Ramu burns $48$ kilocalories by swimming continuously for $10$minutes. The time he spends swimming six days of a week are as follows.

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
$20$minutes	$25$ minutes	$15$ minutes	$0$minutes	$10$minutes	$30$minutes

Estimate the kilocalories burnt by Ramu in a week while swimming.

Answer 1

Time spent by Ramu swimming six days of a week $=20+25+15+10+30=100minutes$

Kilocalories burnt by Ramu in $10$ minutes$=$$48$ $Kilocalories$

Kilocalories burnt by Ramu in $1$ minute$=\frac{48}{10}Kilcalories$

Kilocalories burnt by Ramu in $100$ minutes$=\frac{48}{10}\times 100=480Kilocalories$

Hence, kilocalories burnt by Ramu in a week while swimming is $480Kilocalories$