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You have a huge review project for English where you have to answer 300 questions. You start on it after school at 5:00. At 6:30, you have answered 55 questions.What time will you finish your assignment if you don't take any breaks?

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Given :

The total questions = 300

Time of starting = 5:00

At 6:30 the number of answered questions = 55

The time spent to answer 55 questions = 6:30 - 5:00 = 1:30 hours

Which is equal to : 1 hour and 30 minutes = 90 minutes

So, the rate of answering the questions =90/55 = 18/11 minute per question

So, for solving the 300 questions, the time will be :


300\cdot(18)/(11)=490(10)/(11)\min

So, 490 10/11 minutes = 8 hours and

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