Question:
In 8 days, the earth picks up (6.4 × 107) kg of dust from the atmosphere. How much dust will it pick up in 15 days?
Solution:
Let x kg be the required amount of dust. Then, we have:
Clearly, more amount of dust will be collected in more number of days.
So, this is a case of direct proportion.
Now, $\frac{8}{6.4 \times 10^{7}}=\frac{15}{x}$
$\Rightarrow x=\frac{15 \times 6.4 \times 10^{7}}{8}$
$\Rightarrow x=12 \times 10^{7}$
Therefore, 12,00,00,000 kg of dust will be picked up in 15 days.