If lynn can type a page in p minutes what piece of a page can she type ing 5 minutes?
5/p
p+5
p-5
p/5
1-p-5
Suppose p = 10 minutes. Obviously she can type a half page in 5 minutes.
Which of your choices will give you that answer?
5/p
To determine how much of a page Lynn can type in 5 minutes when she can type a whole page in p minutes, you need to find the fraction of a page that corresponds to 5 minutes.
Since Lynn can type a page in p minutes, it means that in 1 minute, she can type 1/p of a page.
To find out how much she can type in 5 minutes, you multiply the fraction per minute (1/p) by the number of minutes (5):
1/p * 5 = 5/p
Therefore, Lynn can type 5/p of a page in 5 minutes.
Therefore, the correct answer is 5/p.