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A movie has been downloading for 6 minutes and 25% has been downloaded. How much more time would it take to download the remaining portion of the movie?

A) 18 minutes
B) 12 minutes
C) 24 minutes
D) 15 minutes

User Stelterd
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Final answer:

The time taken to download the remaining 75% of the movie is 18 minutes, as the first 25% took 6 minutes and the download speed is constant. The total download time is 24 minutes, from which the elapsed time of 6 minutes is subtracted.

Step-by-step explanation:

The question asks how much more time it will take to download the remaining 75% of a movie if the first 25% took 6 minutes to download. We assume that the download speed remains constant throughout the process. To find the time needed for the entire download, we can set up a proportion.

Since 25% of the movie takes 6 minutes, the whole movie would take 4 times that amount of time (because 4*25% = 100%). Therefore, the total time for downloading the entire movie is 6 minutes * 4 = 24 minutes.

To find the time remaining for the remaining 75% of the movie, we subtract the time already spent downloading, which is 6 minutes, from the total time of 24 minutes.

So, the time remaining to download the rest of the movie = 24 minutes - 6 minutes = 18 minutes.

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