It takes Audrey 3/5 hour to paint 2/5 square yards of wood to be used for making shelves. How many square yards can she paint in 1 hour? Enter your answer in the box as a fraction in simplest form.

Respuesta :

This is how I would do it;

Convert to minutes 3/5 *60 = 36
Convert this to decimal 2/5 = 0.4


Then;

if it takes 36 mnts to paint 0.4yd^
in 60 mnts x yd^
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60 x 0.4 / 36 = 0.66666667

convert back to fraction = 2/3 yd^ in 1hr