Regina worked in the garden, she spent 1/4 hour planting beans, 3 3/4 minutes staking tomato plants, and 1/2 hour training the cucumber vines. How much time did she spend gardening? Explain your answer.
change all to minutes: 15min+ 3.75min+30 min
Convert to minutes.
15 + 3 3/4 + 30 = ?
To find out how much time Regina spent gardening, we need to convert the different time units into the same unit and then add them together.
First, let's convert the time spent planting beans from 1/4 hour to minutes. Since there are 60 minutes in an hour, we can multiply 1/4 by 60 to get:
1/4 hour * 60 minutes/hour = 15 minutes
Next, let's convert the time spent staking tomato plants from 3 3/4 minutes to minutes. Since there are 60 minutes in an hour, we can simply add the whole number part (3) to the fraction:
3 3/4 minutes = 3 minutes + 3/4 minutes = 3 minutes + (3/4 * 60) minutes = 3 minutes + 45 minutes = 48 minutes
Now, let's convert the time spent training cucumber vines from 1/2 hour to minutes. Again, we'll multiply 1/2 by 60:
1/2 hour * 60 minutes/hour = 30 minutes
Now that we have all the times converted to minutes, we can add them together:
15 minutes + 48 minutes + 30 minutes = 93 minutes
Therefore, Regina spent a total of 93 minutes gardening.