Question

Joey and Doug hung out at the mall on Saturday. They spent 1-hour shopping for clothes and 1 hour and 30 minutes at the food court. Then they spent 30 minutes at the video arcade before heading home. It was 2:45 P.M. when Joey and Doug left the mall. What time did they start shopping for clothes?

Answer 1

They started shopping for cloths at 11:45 AM

Explanation:

First of all we have to calculate the whole time that they spent in the mall starting from shopping.

They spent 1 hour on shopping, 1 hour and 30 minutes at food court and 30 minutes in video arcade which makes:

`1 + 1.5+ 0.5 = 3\ hours`

as 30 minutes is equal to half hour so we used 0.5 in place of it.

Now we know that they left at 02:45 PM. We have to see what time it was 3 hours ago.

`02:45\ PM - 03:00 = 11:45\ AM`

Hence,

They started shopping for cloths at 11:45 AM