Renee took a long flight to visit her family that lives out of the country. She slept for the first half of the trip and watched movies for 1/3 of the remaining flight. If the total trip took 11 ¼ hours, how long did Renee watch movies?

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e.mccormick · Answer

OK, you first need to pluck the numbers out of this.  There are some as words and some as numbers.

e.mccormick · Answer

Once you have the numbers, you need to look at what is important.  You have a question at the end and it only realtes to two numbers.  But they gave you three numbers, so you can toss out one of them.

e.mccormick · Answer

Finally, you just do the math with those important numbers and have an answer!