Ricardo spends 8/9 hour reading the newspaper. He spends 1/4 of the time reading the world news and splits the remaining time equally between the sports news and the comics. How much time does he spend reading the comics?
Total reading time: 8/9
World news: 1/4 of 8/9
= (1/4)*(8/9)=2/9
Remaining time = 8/9 - 2/9
=(8-2)/9=6/9
Half of remaining time
= (1/2) 6/9
= 3/9
=1/3 h.
Well, if Ricardo spends 8/9 hour reading the newspaper, and 1/4 of that time on world news, then that leaves him with 8/9 * 1/4 = 2/9 hour left for sports news and comics.
Since he splits that remaining time equally between sports news and comics, he spends 2/9 * 1/2 = 1/9 hour reading the comics.
So, Ricardo spends 1/9 hour reading the comics.
But hey, maybe he spends a little extra time laughing at the funny pages! Who can blame him?
To find out how much time Ricardo spends reading the comics, we first need to find out how much time he spends reading the world news and the sports news.
Ricardo spends 1/4 of the time reading the newspaper on the world news. This is given as (1/4) * (8/9) = 2/9 of an hour.
He splits the remaining time between the sports news and the comics equally. Therefore, the time spent on each is (1/2) * (8/9) = 4/9 of an hour.
Since Ricardo spends 4/9 of an hour reading the comics, the answer is 4/9 of an hour.
To find out how much time Ricardo spends reading the comics, we first need to calculate the time he spends reading the world news.
By multiplying the total reading time (8/9 hour) by 1/4, we can find out the time he spends reading the world news.
(8/9) * (1/4) = 8/36 = 2/9 hour
Next, we need to subtract the time spent reading the world news from the total reading time to find out the remaining time.
Total reading time - Time spent reading world news = Remaining time
(8/9) - (2/9) = 6/9 hour
Now, we need to split the remaining time equally between the sports news and the comics.
Since he splits the remaining time into two equal parts, we need to divide the remaining time by 2.
(6/9) / 2 = (6/9) * (1/2) = 6/18 = 1/3 hour
Therefore, Ricardo spends 1/3 hour (or 20 minutes) reading the comics.