Question

Gardening: Mark works in his garden for 5 hours and 25 minutes, 2 days a week. After 6 weeks, how many hours has Mark spent gardening?Mark has gardened for ? hours.

Answer 1

65 hours.

Explanation:

The first thing is to calculate the number of hours a week, knowing that you spend 5 hours and 25 minutes per day.

A week, he works two days, so a week would be 10 hours and 50 minutes.

Now, it is 6 weeks therefore, we must multiply by 6 the time spent weekly, like this:

`\begin{gathered} 10\text{ h}\cdot6=60\text{ h} \\ 50\text{ min }\cdot6=300\text{ min}\cdot\frac{1\text{ h}}{60\text{ min}}=5\text{ h} \\ \text{ therefore, in total:} \\ t=60+5=65\text{ h} \end{gathered}`

Mark has gardened for 65 hours.