Question

Samantha spent 40 minutes on homework. 60 percent of that time was spent on language arts. How many minutes were spent on language arts?

Answer 1

answer: 60 minutes

if you have 100 minutes to do homework and you spend 60 of it on language arts

Answer 2

I believe it would be 24 minutes

Explanation:

40 ÷ 100% = 0.4

just move the decimal and then that would be 4 minutes per every 10%