Question

write the ratio as a fraction in lowest terms44 minutes to 5 hours

Answer 1

Let's convert hours to minutes:

$\begin{gathered} 5\text{hours}\times\frac{60\text{minutes}}{1\text{hours}} \\ =300\text{minutes} \end{gathered}$

Now we have:

44 minutes to 300 minutes

We write the ratio as a fraction:

$\frac{44}{300}$

We can reduce both the numerator and denominator by 4, to get:

$\begin{gathered} \frac{44}{300} \\ =\frac{11}{75} \end{gathered}$

The correct answer is:

$\frac{11}{75}$