Question

An entire commercial break is 3.6 minutes.

a. If each commercial takes 0.6 minutes, how many commercials will be played?
b. A different commercial break of the same length plays commercials half as long. How many commercials will play during this break?

Answer 1

A. 6 commercials should be played because 3.6/0.6=6 B. 12 commercials because 3.6/0.3= 12 im so sorry if i did that wrong

Answer 2

a. 6 commercials.

b. 12 commercials.

Explanation:

a. You know that the entire commercial break is 3.6 minutes.

Then, if each commercial takes 0.6 minutes, you need to divide 3.6 minutes by 0.6 minutes in order to calculate the number of commercials that will be played.

Therefore, you get:

`commercials=(3.6\ minutes)/(0.6\ minutes)\\\\commercials=6`

b. The other commercial break has the same lenght that the other one (3.6 minutes), but the commercials are half as long; this means that each commercial takes 0.3 minutes.

Then, you need to divide 3.6 minutes by 0.3 minutes in order to calculate the number of commercials that will be played during this break:

`commercials=(3.6\ minutes)/(0.3\ minutes)\\\\commercials=12`