SOLUTION: Many counties in Florida missed many school days in the fall of 2004 due to hurricanes that year. A solution for how to make up those days was to add time to each school day for a

Question 1054754: Many counties in Florida missed many school days in the fall of 2004 due to hurricanes that year. A solution for how to make up those days was to add time to each school day for a portion of the year. It was decided that in order to make up a 6 hour school day, 10 minutes would be added to each day. How many extended days would be needed to make up 3 school days?
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Many counties in Florida missed many school days in the fall of 2004 due to hurricanes that year. A solution for how to make up those days was to add time to each school day for a portion of the year. It was decided that in order to make up a 6 hour school day, 10 minutes would be added to each day. How many extended days would be needed to make up 3 school days?
6 hrs = 6*60 = 360 minutes
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3 school days = 3*360 = 1080 min
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# of days = 1080 min/10 min = 108 days
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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