Jeff, Gene, and Mike need to eat an entire cake before it goes bad. The cake is cut into 8 pieces.

- Jeff could eat 6 pieces of cake in 2 hours
- Gene can eat 2 pieces of cake in 30 minutes
- Mike can eat 4 pieces of cake in 48 minutes

The pieces can be divided into smaller pieces as necessary - the rates are based on the size of pieces that result when dividing the cake into 8 equal pieces.

Answer these questions below:

1) How many pieces of cake can jeff eat in 1 hour? _________________

2) How many pieces of cake can Gene eat in 1 hour? _____________________

3) How many pieces of cake can Mike eat in 60 minutes? ____________________

4) Will it take Mike, Gene, and Jeff more than 1 hour to each eat the cake, or less that an hour to eat the cake? Explain how you know.