Question

A Galapagos tortoise can walk 1/5 mile in an hour. How many hours would it take the tortoise to walk 1/6 mile?

A) 1/5 + 1/6 = 11/30 hour
B) 1/5 divided by 1/6 = 6/5 hours
C) 1/6 x 1/5 = 1/30 hour
D) 1/6 divided by 1/5 = 5/6 hour

Answer 1

The Galapagos tortoise would take 5/6 hour to walk 1/6 mile.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how many hours it would take for the tortoise to walk 1/6 mile, we can set up a proportion. Since the tortoise can walk 1/5 mile in 1 hour, we can set up the proportion as:

1/5 mile = 1 hour

1/6 mile = x hours

Cross-multiplying, we get:

1/6 · 1 = 1/5 · x

Simplifying the equation, we get:

1/6 = x/5

Multiplying both sides by 5, we get:

5/6 = x

So, it would take the tortoise 5/6 hour to walk 1/6 mile.