Question

A homemade DVD of a television series contains 20 episodes. The episodes are 55 minutes each, but contain commercials. If commercials take up

1
5
the time of each episode, how many hours of the television series are on the DVD?
A) 3
2
3
hours
B) 7
1
2
hours
C) 12 hours
D) 14
2
3
hours

Answer 1

i got 13.3 repeating so it would be closest to 14 hours because there is 1100 minutes total on the disk. then each of the 20 episodes have 15 minutes of comercials which meand 300 minutes of commercials then 1100-30=800 minutes of tv divided by 60 i 13.3333333... or 13.4 hours of tv on the disk