Question

An episode of a television show is 60 minutes long when it originally airs with commercials. On a DVD without commercials, the episode is only minutes 41 1/2 long. How many 1/2minute commercials did the episode include when it originally aired?

Group of answer choices

38 commercials

36 commercials

37 commercials

35 commercials

Answer 1

This cab be solved with subtraction and division.

Number of commercials = (60 - 41.5) / 0.5

Using a calculator, we can simplify the expression as follows:

Number of commercials = (18.5) / 0.5

Number of commercials = 37

Therefore, the episode included 37 commercials when it originally aired.