Question

It takes 15 minutes to paint 1/15 of the fence. How long is it going to take her to paint the whole entire fence

Answer 1

For this problem, we were informed that 1/15 of the fence was painted in 15 minutes. We need to calculate the time it will take to paint the whole fence, assuming that the same speed is maintained.

In order to do that we need to assign a variable "t" to the time it will take to paint the fence, then we need to multiply the fraction 1/15 with this variable, and make it equal to 15 minutes, then we need to solve for "t". This is done below:

`\begin{gathered} (t)/(15)=15 \\ t=225\text{ minutes} \end{gathered}`

The process of painting the whole fence will take 225 minutes at that rate.