Question

Ricardo spends 8/9 hour reading the newspaper.he spends 1/4 of the time reading the world news and splits the remaining time equally between the sports news and the comics.how much time does he spend reading the comics?

Answer 1

if he spends 1/4 reading the news, then he spends 3/4 reading the other stuff

3/4 * 8/9 = 24/36 = 2/3 of an hr ...time spent reading sports and comics

(2/3) / 2 =
2/3 * 1/2 = 2/6 reduces to 1/3....so he spends 1/3 of an hour (or 20 minutes) reading the comics