A tailor had a number of shirt pieces to cut from a roll of fabric. He cut each roll of equal length into 12 pieces. He cut at the rate of 40 cuts a minute. How many rolls would be cut in 30 minutes ?
A
212
B
137
C
107
D
109
E
281
Correct answer: D
Explanation
Number of cuts made to cut a roll into 12 pieces = 11.
Therefore, required number of rolls = (40 x 30)/11 = 109.
Source: Algebra word problems from the AQuA-RAT dataset (Ling et al., 2017), published by Google DeepMind under the Apache License 2.0.
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