Max wants to watch a new movie that is 3 hours long. He has watched 1/6 of the movie so far. What fraction of one hour did Max spend watching the new movie?

Respuesta :

According to the information given in the exercise, the movie is 3 hours long. and he has watched this part of it:

[tex]\frac{1}{6}[/tex]

Then, in order to find what fraction of one hour he spent watching that movie, you need to remember the following:

-A fraction has this form:

[tex]\frac{a}{b}[/tex]

Where "a" is the numerator and "b" is the denominator.

- To multiply fractions the procedure is:

[tex]\frac{a}{b}\cdot\frac{c}{d}=\frac{ac}{bd}[/tex]

Then, knowing the above, you can rewrite 3 hours as following:

[tex]3hr=\frac{3}{1}hr[/tex]

And multiplying it by the fraction of the movie he has watched, you get:

[tex](\frac{3}{1})(\frac{1}{6}movie)=\frac{1}{2}movie[/tex]

Then:

[tex]\frac{1}{2}movie=30\min [/tex]

Since he has watched 30 minutes of the movie and knowing that 1 hour has 60 minutes, you can determine that:

[tex]30\min =\frac{1}{2}hr[/tex]

Therefore, the answer is:

[tex]\frac{1}{2}hr[/tex]