For a summer fundraiser, Rob is doing manual labor to help several families do home improvement projects. He is tracking the amount of time he spends each week with a spreadsheet. If his spreadsheet shows that during the past two weeks, he spent a total of 7500 minutes working, how many days and hours has he worked?

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pfenn1 · Answer

I think they are asking you to convert minutes to day and hours. There are 60 minutes in a hour and 24 hours in a day.$$7500\text{ minutes }\times \frac{1\text{ hour}}{60\text{ minutes }}=?$$

anonymous · Answer

5 days and 5 hours
7 days and 8 hours
5 days and 21 hours
7 days and 12 hours

anonymous · Answer

Those are the multiple choice answers

pfenn1 · Answer

Did you calculate the answer to the equation above? It will give you how many hours he worked.  Then you can convert to how many days and hours.

anonymous · Answer

Yes and I failed at it

anonymous · Answer

Third. The answer was like 5.208.....something like that

anonymous · Answer

Okay thanks

pfenn1 · Answer

If you don't have a calculator, you can use this page to calculate 7500/60. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2^y%3D6

pfenn1 · Answer

You would get 125 hours.  5 times 24 gives you 120 hours.

anonymous · Answer

I got that but I don't no how to figure out the days

anonymous · Answer

Yep, follow Pfenn step and you can solve this type of problems your whole life. The answer I gave you will last you for like one question only

anonymous · Answer

you'll get something like 5.208.... the 5 is the days, the 20 odd something is the hours