A recycling machine crushes 175 pounds of cans in 5 minutes. how many pounds of cans will the machine crush in 16 minutes

From the information we have, the machine takes 5 minutes to crush 175 pound of cans.

We need to find out how many pounds can be crushed in one minute.

5 = 175

1 = x

where x is the pounds that can be crushed in one minute. We now cross multiply the above equation, so:

5 * x = 175 * 1

5x = 175

x = 175/5

x = 35

The machine can crush 35 pounds in 1 minute

Therefore in 16 minutes the machine will crush 16 * 35 pounds.

16 * 35 = 560.

The machine will crush 560 pounds of cans in 16 minutes.