Question

10. A school starts at 8 a.m. and gets over at 1.30 p.m. During the school time, if there are two breaks of 15 minutes and 30 minutes, respectively, find the ratio of the break time to the total time the students spend in the school. ​

Answer 1

48 minute

19:22

first we will calculate the number of minutes from 8:00 am to 1:30 pm

and that is 330 minutes

than we will subtract the two breaks of 30 and 15 minutes from 330 minutes

means subtract 45 from 330 and we get 285 minuter

than divide 285/330 and we will get 19/22 so the

~answer is 19:22~