Question

Liam played a video game with three levels. It took him 40 minutes to beat the first level and1 hour and 25 minutes to beat the second level. Liam played the final level for 30 minutes tofinish the game. He beat the final level and stopped playing at 3:45 P.M. What time did Liamstart playing the game?

Answer 1

To find out what time did Liam start playing we must subtract the time, let's do it by steps, first, let's find what time he beat the second level, by doing

Then, at 3:10 P.M Liam beat the second level, now, let's find what time it was when he beat the first level.

Then, at 1:50 P.M Liam beat the first level, then now we can just subtract the 40 minutes to find the hour he started

Then Liam started playing at 1:10 P.M