In a 36-minute gym period, 24 boys want to play basketball. If only 10 can play at the same time, and each boy plays the same amount of time, how many minutes does each boy play?

36*10/24 = 15

To find out how many minutes each boy plays, we need to divide the total gym period duration (36 minutes) by the number of boys who can play at the same time (10 boys).

Step 1: Divide the total gym period duration by the number of boys who can play at the same time.
36 minutes รท 10 boys = 3.6 minutes per boy

Each boy plays for 3.6 minutes. Since we can't have fractions of a minute in this case, we can say that each boy plays for approximately 3 minutes and 36 seconds.