Question

Mr. Simpson spent 5 hours working on his lawn. If he spent 25% of the time edging the flower beds, how much time did he spend edging?

Answer 1

He spent 1.25 hours edging.

You can get this by multiplying the total amount of time by the percentage.

.25 * 5 = 1.25

Answer 2

Answer:

1.25 hours = 1 hour and 15 minutes

Step-by-step explanation:

The total amount of time that he worked was 5 hours.

And 25% of that time he spend it edging the flower bends.

Thus, in order to solve this problem we need to find how much is 25% of 5 hours.

To find a percentage of any quantity '$x$' we apply the following formula:

$\frac{x(percentage) }{100}$

in this case the quantity is 5 hours, and the percentage we want is 25%, so:

25% of 5 hours = $\frac{5(25)}{100}$

25% of 5 hours = $\frac{125}{100}$

25% of 5 hours = $1.25hours$

he spend 1.25 hours edging. Or you can also represent 1.25 hours as 1 hour and 15 minutes