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If a sprinkler waters 1 over 8 of a lawn in 1 over 4 hour, how much time will it take to water the entire lawn?

3 over 8 hour
1 over 2 hour
2 hours
4 hours

User Artxur
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its two hours because 1/4 of an hour is 15 Minute so in 2 hours you have 8/8 because every 1/4 hour it's 1/8 and there are 4  1/4 in a hour
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1/8 of the lawn in 1/4 of an hour. That mean you would need a whole hour to do 4/8 or 1/2 of the lawn. So you would need two hours to do the whole lawn. 
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