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

1.25 hours = 1 hour and 15 minutes

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:

`(x(percentage) )/(100)`

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

25% of 5 hours =
`(5(25))/(100)`

25% of 5 hours =
`(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