Question

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 11,040 minutes working, how many days and hours has he worked?

6 days and 6 hours

6 days and 16 hours

7 days and 7 hours

7 days and 16 hours

Answer 1

@LukeBlueFive can you help me with this?

Answer 2

Sure. There are 60 minutes in an hour:
\[1 hour = 60 minutes\]
So this means:
\[11,040 minutes \times \frac{1hour}{60 minutes}\]
Will give you the equivalent number of hours.
Furthermore, there are 24 hours in a day:
\[1 day = 24 hours\]
So this means you need to multiply the previous result by:
\[\frac{1 day}{24 hours}\]
To get the equivalent number of days.

Answer 3

66240 and 264090, thats what i am getting :( so sorry

Answer 4

You seem to be multiplying instead of dividing... guess I should've made my equations clearer. Let me rewrite them:
\[\frac{11,040 minutes}{60 minutes}\]
Will give you the number of hours.
Then, divide the following from that result:
\[24 hours\]
To get the number of days.

Answer 5

You divide since there are more minutes in a day than hours, and more hours than days in a year... if that makes any sense.

Answer 6

7.666667 i got final answer this

Answer 7

184 dividing 11040/60

184 / 24 got that 7.6666667

Answer 8

Okay, he worked for over 7 days, but how much over? To find out, multiply the .6666667 part by 24 to get the number of hours that is equal to 2/3 of a day.

Answer 9

Then you'll have the answer: 7 days and ? hours

Answer 10

But i m getting 184 when i multiply

Answer 11

Sorry got 16, you meant just multiply .666667 with 24

Answer 12

Thank you so sooooooooooo much @LukeBlueFive !!!!!!!!!! your totally amazing !!!!!

Answer 13

So sorry for troubling alot for this probs, actually worst at math

Answer 14

You're too kind, but you're welcome. Hope this made sense.

Answer 15

yes :) thank you so much, n um so sorry again for trouble

Answer 16

That's what I'm here for. =D

Answer 17

Lol thanks alot, your really great and truly genius !!! :)

Answer 18

lol, I've just seen a lot of math over the years... ^_^;