Question

It took Nick five-thirds ofan hour to complete hismath homework onMonday, three-fourths ofan hour on Tuesday, andfive-sixths of an hour onWednesday. How manyminutes did he take tocomplete his homeworkthis week?

Answer 1

`He\text{ took 145 minutes }`

Here, we want to calculate the number of minutes it took for the completion of the assignment

As we can see, we have the completion parts on three days; so basically, we will calculate the number of minutes for each of these days before we proceed to add them together

We should remember that an hour is 60 minutes

So, let us calculate for each of the days

a) Monday

`(5)/(3)*\text{ 60 minutes = 100 minutes}`

b) Tuesday

`(3)/(4)*60\text{ minutes = 45 minutes}`

c) Wednesday

`(5)/(6)*60\text{ minutes = 50 minutes}`

The total number of minutes he took this week is the addition of all these

We have this as;

`(100+50+45)\text{ minutes = 195 minutes}`