Last year’s match at Wimbledon between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut, which lasted 11 hours and 5 minutes, set a record for the l

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Last year’s match at Wimbledon between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut, which lasted 11 hours and 5 minutes, set a record for the l

ongest match in tennis history. The fifth set of the match lasted 8 hours and 11 minutes. Approximately what fraction of the whole match was taken up by the fifth set?

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andre [41] · Answer 1 · 2022-07-16T09:30:34+03:00

Answer:

.738 as a fraction equals 738/1000

Step-by-step explanation:

Convert all to minutes.

11 hr 5min is 665 min.

8 hr 11min is 491.

Divide 491÷665

Answer .738

To write .738 as a fraction you have to write .738 as the numerator and put 1 as the denominator. Now you multiply the numerator and denominator by 10 as long as you get in numerator the whole number.

.738 = .738/1 = 7.38/10 = 73.8/100 = 738/1000

And finally,we have:

.738 as a fraction equals 738/1000

Oxana [17] · Answer 2 · 2022-07-16T07:36:09+03:00

Oxana [17]2 years ago

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