Question

A 20-minute TV program consists of two commercials, each 13 over 4 minutes long, and three equal-length entertainment segments. How long is each entertainment segment? Enter your answer as a decimal.

Answer 1

Each single entertainment segment is 4.5 minutes.

Explanation:

Out of the 20 minute show there are two blocks of time that are ads. The ads are each 13/4 minutes long.

13/4 = 13 ÷ 4 = 3.25

minutes.

Let's take away the time used for ads from the 20 minite total.

20 - 3.25 - 3.25

= 13.5

Without ads the show's actual runtime is 13.5 minutes.

Now we'll divide that 13.5 into three equal parts.

13.5 ÷ 3 = 4.5

Each of the three equal entertainment segments is 4.5 minutes long.