Afingernail grows at an average rate of 1/8 inches per month. rip van winkle, a character in a story by washington irving, slept for 20 years. if his fingernails grew at an average rate, approximately how many inches did each nail grow while he slept

change 20 years to months

20 * 12 = 240 months

1/8 inch per month * 240 months

240/8

30 inches

The copy machine makes 87.5 copies in one minute.

Step-by-step explanation:

Set up an equation to divide 4 into 350. This is because in order to know how many copies is being made in 1 minute, you need to determine the rate of copies per minute.

350 divided by 4 is 87.5.