Question

Your itinerary is below. you receive the folowing messasge from a friend: " lets meet for dinner before you go back to the hotel. the restaurant is 25 minutes from the client's office.

12:00pm -1:00pm Drive to Client
1:00pm- 2:00pm Prepare for meeting
2:00pm- 5:15pm meeting with client
5:15pm- 6:00pm Drive to hotel

what is the earliest time you can arrive at dinner?

Answer 1

To determine the earliest dinner time after your meeting, you need to add 25 minutes to the meeting's end time. If going directly from the client's office, the earliest you could make it to dinner would be 5:40pm. However, your schedule suggests driving to the hotel first, rendering dinner before that unfeasible.

Step-by-step explanation:

The earliest time you can arrive at dinner can be determined by adding the meeting end time with the estimated travel time to the restaurant. Your meeting with the client ends at 5:15pm. Given that the restaurant is 25 minutes from the client's office, if we add these 25 minutes to 5:15pm, we would get 5:40pm as the time you would leave the client's office. However, you mentioned that you have to drive to the hotel first which takes 45 minutes (from 5:15pm-6:00pm). Therefore, if your plan was to go to the hotel first before dinner, you wouldn't be able to make it to dinner until after 6:00pm.

Answer 2

Answer: the earliest you can arrive at the restaurant is 5:40 pm.

The message of your friend says "before you go back to the hotel" which means, according to your itinerary, after the meeting with the client.

Always according to your itinerary, the meeting with the client is expected to last until 5:15 pm, therefore that is the earliest time at which you can leave towards the restaurant.

The restaurant is "25 minutes from the client's office", therefore, the time of arrival at dinner is 5:15 + 25 minutes.

The time is given in the form hh:mm, therefore you need to add the minutes: 15 + 25 = 40.

Hence, the earliest you can arrive at dinner is 5:40 pm.