57.0k views
3 votes
Mrs Boucher spends 18000 seconds a day at work. She has 45 minutes for lunch. How many hours does she work in total?

1 Answer

5 votes

Final answer:

Mrs. Boucher works for 18,000 seconds a day. Converting this into hours, Mrs. Boucher works for 5 hours a day. After subtracting 45 minutes for lunch, she works a total of 4.25 hours each day.

Step-by-step explanation:

The question requires converting time spent at work from seconds to hours and incorporating the lunch break. Mrs. Boucher spends 18,000 seconds at work. To find out how many hours that is, we divide the total seconds by the number of seconds in an hour (3,600 seconds).

18,000 seconds ÷ 3,600 seconds/hour = 5 hours

Mrs. Boucher has 45 minutes for lunch, which needs to be subtracted from the total working hours.

Since there are 60 minutes in an hour, to convert 45 minutes to hours, divide it by 60:

45 minutes ÷ 60 minutes/hour = 0.75 hours

Now, let's subtract the lunch break from the total hours worked:

5 hours - 0.75 hours = 4.25 hours

Mrs. Boucher works a total of 4.25 hours each day.

User Juboraj Sarker
by
8.5k points