If Lynn can type a page in p minutes, what piece of the page can she do in 5 minutes?
Her pages per minute rate is 1/p.
In T minutes , the number of pages typed would be T/p.
In this case, T = 5 minutes, so that number is 5/p pages.
To find out what piece of the page Lynn can type in 5 minutes, we need to relate the number of minutes to the amount of work done.
Since Lynn can type a full page in p minutes, we can say that in 1 minute, she can type 1/pth (1 divided by p) of the page.
To find out what piece of the page she can type in 5 minutes, we need to multiply the work done in 1 minute by the number of minutes (5):
Piece of the page in 5 minutes = (1/p) * 5 = 5/p
Therefore, Lynn can type 5/pth of the page in 5 minutes.