Question

Emma comes home from school at 4 p.m. and goes to bed at 8 p.m. if she spends 10 minutes each day doing homework, find the ratio of her time spent on homework to her total time at home after school before bedtime. write your answer in simplest form

Answer 1

From 4 p.m to 8 p.m, there are 4 hours. Each hour is composed of 60 minutes. This means that the total number of minutes is equal to 240. Thus, we determine the ratio of her time in doing the homework by dividing 10 minutes by 240 minutes, giving us the answer of 10:240 equal to 1:24.