Question: Practice Tasks 2 Find the missing term in the following inverse proportion problems. 1. The Scoutmaster thought he had enough food to feed 24 Scouts

Practice Tasks 2 Find the missing term in the
Practice Tasks 2 Find the missing term in the following inverse proportion problems. 1. The Scoutmaster thought he had enough food to feed 24 Scouts at a camp for 8 days. If 32 Scouts arrived at the camp, how long would the food last? 2. If a car traveling at the rate of 40 km/h takes 10 h to travel a certain distance, how long will it take the same car to travel the same distance at the rate of 50 km/h? 3. It took 5 days for a committee of 8 pupils to clean the auditorium for a school program. How many days would it take a committee of 10 pupils to do the same work? 4. If 3 farmers can plow a field in 4 days, how long will 6 farmers plow the same? 5. Four pumps of equal capacity can fill a tank in 42 minutes. How long will 6 pumps of the same kind fill the tank

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