The ferris well can accomodate 45 people in 30 minutes.
You need to calculate how many people you can accomodate in 3 hours.
To do so the first step is to express the 3 hours in minutes:
You know that 1 hour has 60 minutes, multiply 60 by 3 to determine how many minutes there are in 3 hours:
[tex]60\cdot3=180[/tex]3 hours equal to 180 minutes
Now you can use cross multiplication to determine the number of people that can ride the ferris well in three hours.
30 min_____45 people
180min_____x people
[tex]\begin{gathered} \frac{45}{30}=\frac{x}{180} \\ x=(\frac{45}{30})180 \\ x=270 \end{gathered}[/tex]The ferris well can accomodate 270 persons in 3 hours.
