Question

Amy's dog sleeps for 12 hours each night. She wants to know what percent of the day her dog sleeps What fraction shows the number of hours amy's dog sleeps? complete the fraction.

Answer 1

1/2 or 50%

Explanation:

This problem is too simple.

12 hours of sleep for the every 24 hours in a day is 12/24.

Simplify to get 1/2.

12/24 = 0.5 = 50%

Answer 2

Percent of the day Amy's dog sleeps = 50 %

`\texttt{Fraction of the number of hours Amy's dog sleeps = }(1)/(2)`

Explanation:

Amy's dog sleeps for 12 hours each night.

Duration of sleeping of Amy's dog = 12 hours

Duration of one day = 24 hours.

So we need to find what percentage is 12 hours of 24 hours.

`\texttt{Percent of the day Amy's dog sleeps = }(12)/(24)* 100=50\%`

`\texttt{Fraction of the number of hours Amy's dog sleeps = }(12)/(24)=(1)/(2)`