Alec and Ellie are the only detectives in the town of Broadchurch. They work together. Assume efficient production. Each has 10 hours in a day to allocate between conducting interviews and completing paperwork. In one hour Alec can produce 23 interviews or 45 files of paperwork. In one hour, Ellie can produce 15 interviews or 9 files of paperwork. Broadchurch right now conducts 237 interviews a day. If it needed 10 more interviews, how many paperwork files would it have to give up? Enter a number only.
Alec and Ellie are the only detectives in the town of Broadchurch. They work together. Assume efficient production. Each has 10 hours in a day to allocate between conducting interviews and completing paperwork. In one hour Alec can produce 23 interviews or 45 files of paperwork. In one hour, Ellie can produce 15 interviews or 9 files of paperwork. Broadchurch right now conducts 237 interviews a day. If it needed 10 more interviews, how many paperwork files would it have to give up? Enter a number only.
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Alec and Ellie are the only detectives in the town of Broadchurch. They work together. Assume efficient production. Each has 10 hours in a day to allocate between conducting interviews and completing paperwork.
In one hour Alec can produce 23 interviews or 45 files of paperwork.
In one hour, Ellie can produce 15 interviews or 9 files of paperwork.
Broadchurch right now conducts 237 interviews a day. If it needed 10 more interviews, how many paperwork files would it have to give up? Enter a number only.
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