It takes Omar four minutes to eat eight carrot sticks. How long does it take him to eat one? Please answer and explain.
4/8 = ?
2 minutes because 8 divided by 4 = 2
To find out how long it takes Omar to eat one carrot stick, we can divide the total time it takes him to eat eight carrot sticks (4 minutes) by the number of carrot sticks (8).
So, to answer the question, we divide 4 minutes by 8 carrot sticks:
4 minutes ÷ 8 carrot sticks = 0.5 minutes
Therefore, it takes Omar 0.5 minutes, or 30 seconds, to eat one carrot stick.
To solve this problem, we used the concept of dividing the total time by the quantity. In this case, we divided the total time (4 minutes) by the number of carrot sticks (8) to find the time taken to eat one carrot stick.