Question

Your teachers work at least 50 hours a week. 40% ofthat time is spent teaching students. How many hoursare teachers teaching?

Answer 1

The teacher works 50hours/week → this is the 100% of their work time.

40% of those 50hours/week they spend teaching their students, to calculate how many hours that is you can use cross multiplication_

100%_______50hours/week

40%_______x hours/week

`\begin{gathered} (50)/(100)=(x)/(40) \\ x=((50)/(100))\cdot40 \\ x=20 \end{gathered}`

The teachers spend 20hours/week teaching their students.