The Eat "N Go Mobile Sausage Sandwich Shop specializes in the sale of spicy sausage sandwiches served on a toasted bun. Each sausage sandwich comes with four strips of jalapeno pepper, one sausage patty, and a tablespoon of Stephen's famous special sauce. If a single jalapeno pepper makes 8 slices, and the Sandwich Shop serves a sandwich every 5 minutes, how many jalapeno peppers are required by the Sandwich Shop to serve all customers during an 8-hour day? Give me reasons, before answering the question
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If each sandwich comes with 4 strips of pepper, and each pepper makes 8 slices, then each sandwich uses 4 / 8 = 0.5 pepper. If the Sandwich Shop serves a sandwich every 5 minutes, then per hour the Shop serves 60 / 5 = 12 sandwiches. Thus, per hour, the Shop uses 12 * 0.5 = 6 jalapeno peppers. And in an 8 - hour day, the Sandwich Shop uses 8 * 6 = 48 jalapeno peppers. So the final answer is 48.
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