Question

A basketball game was scheduled to last 606060 minutes, including the breaks between quarters. Several timeouts were used throughout the game, resulting in the game lasting a total of 727272 minutes, including breaks. If each timeout was 909090 seconds, how many total timeouts were used during the game?

Answer 1

8

Step-by-step explanation:

Total length of timeouts = no. of timeouts × length of each timeout

T = n × l

Data:

Scheduled length of game = 60 min

Actual length of game = 72 min

l = 90 s

Calculations:

T = 72 - 60 = 12 min = 720 s

720 s = n × 90 s

n = 720/90 = 8

There were eight timeouts during the game.