This question comes from my own book, so my tips on how to deal with these can be found in the same chapter. The main key to getting it right is making sure you translate the words into math correctly.

Note that although the question tells you that Tariq makes brownies and Penelope makes cookies, in the end it only asks about “treats,” so we can lump cookies and brownies together.

Tariq makes 30 treats per hour and Penelope makes 48 treats per hour. Together, then, they make 78 treats per hour. We know they both worked for the same amount of hours.

The other key to getting this right is keeping track of the units of the numbers you know. In this case, we have treats and hours for units. We know the number of total treats, and we know the rate of treats per hour. We want the number of hours. How do we set up the equation we need to solve? We need to divide the total number of treats, 312, by the number of treats they made per hour, 78.

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