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Max wants to watch a new movie that is 3 hours long. He has watched 1/6 of the movie so far. What fraction of one hour did Max spend watching the new movie?

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According to the information given in the exercise, the movie is 3 hours long. and he has watched this part of it:


(1)/(6)

Then, in order to find what fraction of one hour he spent watching that movie, you need to remember the following:

-A fraction has this form:


(a)/(b)

Where "a" is the numerator and "b" is the denominator.

- To multiply fractions the procedure is:


(a)/(b)\cdot(c)/(d)=(ac)/(bd)

Then, knowing the above, you can rewrite 3 hours as following:


3hr=(3)/(1)hr

And multiplying it by the fraction of the movie he has watched, you get:


((3)/(1))((1)/(6)movie)=(1)/(2)movie

Then:


(1)/(2)movie=30\min

Since he has watched 30 minutes of the movie and knowing that 1 hour has 60 minutes, you can determine that:


30\min =(1)/(2)hr

Therefore, the answer is:


(1)/(2)hr

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