Question

Jamie volunteered for 6 days at a nursing home. if she volunteered for 2 1/2 hours on each of those days, how many total hours did she volunteer?

Answer 1

The total number of hours Jamie volunteered at a nursing home is 15 hours

Solution:

Jamie volunteered at a nursing home for 6 days.

She volunteered
`2(1)/(2)` hours each day at the nursing home.

We have been asked to find out the total number of hours she has volunteered at the nursing home.

We can rewrite
`2(1)/(2)` in decimal form to simplify the calculation.

`=2 (1)/(2)=(5)/(2)=2.5`

Therefore, Jamie volunteered 2.5 hours at the nursing home each day.

To find out the total number of hours she has volunteered there, we have to do the following:

`\text { Total hours volunteered }=\text { total no. of days volunteered } * \text { no. of hours volunteered. }`

`=6 * 2.5=15`

So, the total number of hours Jamie volunteered at a nursing home is 15 hours.