Question

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Jake's band played songs at three different parties. At the first party they played four-fifths as long as they did at the second party, which was one-half as long as the third party. If they played for 6 minutes at the first party, how many minutes did they play at the third party?
Choose one answer.
A. 2 minutes
B. four and four-fifths minutes
C. eight and three-fifths minutes
D. fifteen minutes

Answer 1

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Answer 2

So to make it all a bit simpler, you represent the first party as 'a', second party as 'b' and third party as 'c'.
a=4/5b
c = 1/2 b

since a=6,
6=4/5(b)
b=7.5

c=2(7.5)
c=15

So they played 15 minutes at the third party.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Thank you!