Question

1) Ben has been 30 minutes late to work on each of the last 7 days. The number of hours that he has been late will be deducted from his usual 40 hour work week. How many hours will be deducted?

A) 2 hours
B) 3 hours
3.5 hours
D) 4.5 hours
E) 5 hours

Answer 1

C) 3.5 hours

Explanation:

30 minutes is a half of an hour.

So that would be seven halves of an hour.

If we multiply the amount of halves by the amount of day late we get our answer.

0.5 x 7 = 3.5

Or we could simply add 0.5 seven times.

Answer 2

The to the question is 3.5 hours