SOLUTION: simone has 5 employees in her flower shop.Each employee works 6 4/15 hours per day.How many hours,in total,do the employees work per day?

Question 190101: simone has 5 employees in her flower shop.Each employee works 6 4/15 hours per day.How many hours,in total,do the employees work per day?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
An easy way to work with the mixed number 6 4/15 is
to convert the fraction to one with in the
denominator.
A good rule is that you can always multiply a fraction by
without changing it. All these fractions equal :
,., etc.
What you should use is

In this problem, is a fractional part of an hour.
In order to get minutes, note that of an hour is
minute, so of an hour is minutes
Now I can say 6 4/15 hours = 6 hours and 16 minutes
hour has minutes, so hours has
minutes
So far I have 6 4/15 hours = minutes
minutes
So, 5 employees each work minutes per day
Altogether, they work minutes
The problem wants the answer in hours, so
= 31 1/3 hours
1/3 hour is 20 minutes because minutes
The 5 employees work 31 hours and 20 minutes
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