Question

A museum has 450 visitors each day. If they are open 5 hours, how many people do they see per hour?

Answer 1

Answer: 90 visitors per hour

Explanation: "Per hour" means in 1 hour, so we can rewrite the given statement using fractions as 450 visitors/5 hours = __visitors/1 hour.

To find out what goes in the bank, notice that we

have a 1 in the denominator of our second fraction.

So we want to find a fraction that is equivalent

to 450/5 that has a 1 in the denominator.

If we divide the numerator and denominator of 450/5 by 5,

we get the equivalent fraction 90/1 or 90 visitors/1 hour.

So now we have 90 visitors/1 hour = __visitors/1 hour.

So a 90 must go in the blank.

This means that the museum sees 90 visitors per hour.