Unit 2 · Schedule and Timetable Matching

Dentist Surgery — How Many Appointments Fit?

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A dentists' surgery is open for 9 hours, each dentist takes a 60-minute lunch break, each appointment is 20 minutes, and there are 3 dentists. How many appointments can they fit in a day? This is a clean, multi-step capacity question — the kind that trips up students who rush and forget to subtract the lunch break.

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0:00Introduction
0:20The Question
1:03Strategy
1:29Step 1: How long is the surgery open?
1:51Step 2: Subtract lunch — productive time per dentist
2:14Step 3: Appointments per dentist
2:30Step 4: Multiply by three dentists
3:07Correct answer

Question

A dentists' surgery opens at 8:00 am and closes at 5:00 pm each day. Each appointment is 20 minutes and every dentist has a 60-minute lunch break but no other breaks.

Three dentists work in the surgery.

What is the maximum number of appointments that can be made in the surgery in a day?

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