Clark is cooking a 12 pound ham. The ham needs to be cook 20 minutes for each pound. Clark wants to serve the ham at 5 p.m. What is the latest time he should place the ham in the oven.

What do you think?

You have two numbers -- 12 and 20

What can you do with these two numbers (add, subtract, multiply, divide) that will give you a reasonable answer?

I can multiply 12 by 20 and get 240, is that correct

Right. It will take 240 minutes to cook the ham.

How many hours is 240 minutes?

What time should you put the ham in the oven so that it will be done at 5:00?

4 hours at 2:00

It will take 4 hours. But you'd better refigure what time she has to put it in the oven.

at 1:00

Yes! You've got it! :-)

Thank you ms.sue

You're welcome, Miranda.