Brianna is taking a writing assessment that has 3 sections. She has a total of 5/6 of an hour to finish all the sections. If she is allowed the same amount of time to finish each section, how much time does she have to spend on each section?(1 point)
Responses
2/5 hour
2 1/2 hours
5/18 hour
3 3/5 hours
To find out how much time Brianna has to spend on each section, we need to divide the total time she has (5/6 hour) by the number of sections (3).
5/6 ÷ 3 = 5/6 × 1/3 = 5/18 hour
Therefore, Brianna has 5/18 of an hour to spend on each section.
To find the amount of time Brianna has to spend on each section, we need to divide the total time available by the number of sections.
Brianna has a total of 5/6 hour to finish all the sections.
To find the time for each section, we divide the total time by the number of sections.
There are 3 sections, so we divide 5/6 hour by 3.
(5/6) ÷ 3 = 5/6 × 1/3 = 5/18
Therefore, Brianna has 5/18 hour to spend on each section.
Option C: 5/18 hour is the correct answer.
To find out how much time Brianna has to spend on each section, we need to divide the total amount of time she has (5/6 of an hour) by the number of sections (3).
The calculation would be:
5/6 ÷ 3
To simplify this division, we can convert the fraction to a decimal:
5/6 = 0.83 recurring (rounded to two decimal places)
Now we can divide this decimal by 3:
0.83 recurring ÷ 3
This equals approximately 0.2777 recurring.
Rounding this to two decimal places, we get:
0.28.
Therefore, Brianna has approximately 0.28 hours to spend on each section.
To convert this to a fraction in lowest terms, we can multiply both the numerator and denominator by 100 to make it a whole number:
0.28 × 100/1 = 28/100 = 7/25.
So, Brianna has 7/25 of an hour to spend on each section.
However, none of the provided answer choices match 7/25 of an hour. Therefore, none of the provided answer choices are correct.