Question

Carter plays 5/8 of a basketball game, The basketball games Is 40 minutes long. Which of the following shows how to find the number of minutes Carter plays?

Answer 1

Answer: C

$\frac{5\times5}{8\times5}=\frac{25}{40}\text{ ; 25 minutes}$

Explanation:

Given that Carter plays 5/8 of a basketball game.

Which means he play 5 out of every 8 minutes of the game.

Since a game is 40 minutes, the number of minutes he plays per game is;

$\begin{gathered} \frac{5}{8}=\frac{5\times5}{8\times5}=\frac{25}{40}\text{ ; 25 minutes} \\ \text{which means he plays 25 minutes out of the 40 minutes of the game.} \end{gathered}$

For every 40 minutes of the game he plays 25 minutes.