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2. QUIT WHILE YOU CAN Smoking has long been connected with serious diseases, such as lung cancer,
emphysema, and heart disease. Let's estimate that for every cigarette a person smokes, he or she loses anywhere
from 10 to 15 minutes of his or her life. Assuming the worst (15 minutes of life lost for each cigarette), how much
shorter would the life span be of someone who smoked two packs a day for 35 years? (Each pack contains 20
cigarettes.) Answer in years, days, hours, and minutes. (For example, 42 years, 152 days, 7 hours, and 28
minutes.)

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Using proportions, it is found that the life span of the person would be 14 years, 212 days and 22 hours shorter.

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  • 2 packs a day for 35 years is 40 cigarettes a day for 12775 days, as [tex]35 \times 365 = 12775[/tex].
  • Thus, a total of 511000 cigarettes, as [tex]40 \times 12775 = 511000[/tex].
  • Assuming each cigarette costs 15 minutes of life, the person loses 7665000 minutes of life, as [tex]15 \times 511000 = 7665000[/tex]

  • One year has 525600 minutes, thus the person loses 14 years of life, as [tex]\frac{7665000}{525600} = 14.5833333[/tex]
  • Looking at the decimal part, the person loses 212 days of life, as [tex]0.5833333 \times 365 = 212.916666655[/tex]
  • Again looking at the decimal part, 22 hours, as [tex]0.916666655 \times 24 = 22[/tex]

  • Thus, the person loses 14 years, 212 days and 22 hours of life.

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