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Last week Sophia practiced dancing for a total of 8 hours in 5 day's.If she practiced for the same amount of time each day,how long did she practice each day

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Answer:

She practice each day for 1.6 hrs with same rate.

Explanation:

Given:

8 hours in 5 day's

To Find:

how did she practice each day with same rate .

Solution:

Consider a double line representation,

one line represents the number of days.

Second line represents number of hours practice.

Now to find on each day practice with same rate

It is given by,

5 hours corresponds to 8 days.

i.e the for 1 day ,

1:5/8 ratio should remain same for all days

i.e. 8/5 ratio will be same

i.e. 1.6 hrs/day practice will done with give rate.

On 1st day 1.6 hrs

On 2nd day 3.2 hrs

Similar on 5 day it will be 8 hrs.

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