Answer: 8 minutes.
Step-by-step explanation:
1. Let's call the time to cook the noodles: [tex]x[/tex].
2. You must use the following information given in the problem to write an equation:
-The time to cook the meat is 30 minutes.
- The time to to cook the meat takes 2 minutes less than four times the amount of time it takes to boil the noodles.
3. Therefore, you have:
[tex]30=4x-2[/tex]
4. Solve for [tex]x[/tex]:
[tex]x=\frac{32}{4}\\x=8[/tex]
5. The answer is: 8 minutes.
