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logan and joseph are running backs for their school football team. in the last game logan played 1/5 of the game and jospeh played 5/9 of the game if the game was 60 minutes long, how many more minutes did joesph play than logan

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First we find the time for Logan.

Logan was in the game 1/5 of the time. Since the time of the game was 60 minutes, to calculate the minutes that Logan played, we multiply 1/5 by 60:


(1)/(5)*60=(1*60)/(5)=(60)/(5)=12

Logan was 12 minutes in the game.

Now we find the time for Joseph.

Joseph was in the game 5/9 of the 60 minutes. To find the time that Joseph was in the game, we multiply 5/9 by 60:


(5)/(9)*60=(5*60)/(9)=(300)/(9)=33.33

Joseph was in the game 33.33 minutes.

The difference in their times is:


33.33-12=21.33

Answer: 21.33 minutes

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