Marcy and her sister watched a cartoon movie that was 2 hours and 18 minutes long. after the movie, they played a card game for
34 minutes and then played soccer for 1 hour and 12 minutes. when they came in from playing soccer, it was 5:28 p.m. what time did marcy and her sister start watching the movie?
Couple of ways to solve this. Here is one method Convert all times to minutes and find the total number of minutes they spent on all 3 activities. Then convert to hours and minutes and subtract from the end time of 5;28 to get the start time of all activities which is also the start time of watching the movie (first activity)
Total time spent = 138 + 34 + 72 = 244 minutes = 4 hours and 04 minutes
Subtract 4:04 from 5:28 to get 1:24pm
Check Movie watch starts at 4:04, ends at 1:24 + 2:18 or 3:42pm Card game starts at 3:42pm ends at 3:42+0:34 ==> 4:16pm Soccer starts at 4:16pm ends at 4:16pm + 1:12 ==> 5;28pm
