Question

Arian is making bracelets. For each bracelet, it takes 1/10 of hour to pick out materials and 1/4 hour to braid it together. How many bracelets can Arian make in 5 hours?
I know this is easy math but I couldn't understand a thing my math teacher was talking about when we learned this.​

Answer 1

Change everything into 10ths as follows:

1/10 + 2.5/10 = 3.5/10 of an hour to make one bracelet. Then change to 20ths so the numerator is a whole number.
Divide your time available by the time it takes to make one.

21
4 = 420= 15 bracelets
7 28
20

(as a whole number there was no fraction or remainder to round off)