Question

Ms. Yang is planning South Glen's annual community talent show. After tryouts, she selected 20 acts to perform in the show. Ms. Yang wants to give each act the same amount of time onstage during the show and also have time for a 15-minute intermission. She has planned for the show to last a total of 75 minutes.

Answer 1

Ms. Yang has 60 minutes of performance time after accounting for a 15-minute intermission. Dividing this time by the 20 acts selected for the talent show, each act gets 3 minutes on stage.

Step-by-step explanation:

Ms. Yang has a total show time of 75 minutes and wants to include a 15-minute intermission in the South Glen annual community talent show. To determine the amount of time each of the 20 acts can have onstage, we subtract the intermission time from the total show time and then divide the remaining time by the number of acts.

First, we find the time available for the acts:

Total show time: 75 minutes

Intermission time: 15 minutes

Time available for acts: 75 minutes - 15 minutes = 60 minutes

Next, we divide the time available for the acts by the number of acts to find out how much time each act gets:

Number of acts: 20

Time per act: 60 minutes / 20 acts = 3 minutes per act

Therefore, each act will have 3 minutes to perform during the talent show.