Final answer:
Piper drinks 1/2 of a 10 ounce glass in 6 minutes, so in one hour, which is 60 minutes, she can drink 5 full glasses since she consumes a full glass every 12 minutes (1 hour ÷ 12 minutes per glass = 5 glasses).
Step-by-step explanation:
Piper drinks 1/2 of a 10 ounce glass in 6 minutes. To determine how many glasses she drinks in an hour, we first need to calculate how many times she can drink 1/2 of a glass within 60 minutes, since an hour consists of 60 minutes.
Since Piper drinks 1/2 glass in 6 minutes, she will drink a full glass in 12 minutes (because 6 minutes x 2 = 12 minutes). Now we can divide the total number of minutes in an hour by the number of minutes it takes Piper to drink a full 10 ounce glass:
- 60 minutes (1 hour) ÷ 12 minutes per glass = 5 glasses
Therefore, Piper drinks 5 glasses in an hour.