If a trip between work and home takes 15 minutes each way how much till will be spent in a 5 day work week traveling back and forth to work? (assume that at no point does the employee have to go home and come back within the same day)
Would the proportion be 15/5
150 minutes.
75 minutes
No.
If it takes 15 minutes to get to work, then it takes him another 15 minutes to get home. That means he travels 30 minutes each day going to and from work.
What does the statement in parenthesis saying? Do I just make the proportion using 30 minutes/5?
I assume your question is asking how many minutes he spends going back and forth to work in a week. You can't use a proportion for this problem.
The part in parentheses means he only makes one round trip each day.
So I'd multiply 30*5 to get 150
Yep. It comes out the same both ways we work the problem.
. If a trip between work and home takes 15 minutes each way, how much time will be spent in a 5-day
work week traveling back and forth to work? (Assume that at no point does the employee have to go home
and come back within the same day.)
To calculate the total time spent traveling back and forth to work in a 5-day work week, you need to multiply the time spent for each trip (15 minutes) by the total number of trips in a week.
The total number of trips in a week can be calculated by considering that there are typically two trips required each day (going to work and coming back home). So, for a standard work week of 5 days, the total number of trips would be 2 trips/day x 5 days/week = 10 trips/week.
To find the total time spent in the week, you can multiply the time spent per trip (15 minutes) by the total number of trips (10 trips/week):
Total time spent = 15 minutes/trip x 10 trips/week
Therefore, the total time spent in a 5-day work week traveling back and forth to work is 150 minutes or 2 hours and 30 minutes.
So, the proportion to determine the total time spent would be 15 minutes per trip, multiplied by the number of trips (10 trips in this case), which results in 150 minutes.
Yes. You're right.
You could use a proportion.
30/1 = x/5