Question

In 30 minutes, a television station plays 8.5 minutes of commercials and airs a cooking show for m minutes. Write an equation that gives the length of the cooking show that was aired during this 30-minute period. please help!!

Answer 1

30-8.5=m

Explanation:

You have to figure out how many minutes the ads were not playing, which is also how long the cooking show was playing, and to do this you simply subtract.