A gardener is transplanting flowers into a flowerbed. She has been working for an hour and has transplanted 14 flowers. She has 35 more flowers to transplant. If she works at the same rate, how many more hours will it take her?

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Answer 1 · 2016-10-21T09:56:19

She will need another two and a half hours.

In one hour, the gardener transplanted #14# flowers. She has #35# more flowers to transplant.

Since #14# flowers take one hour to transplant, #35# flowers will take #35/14# hours to transplant.

#35/14=2.5#