SOLUTION: How long will each question take to answer if there are 80 questions in a 4 hour long test?

Question 633616: How long will each question take to answer if there are 80 questions in a 4 hour long test?
Found 2 solutions by Theo, ikeoddy:
Answer by Theo(13342) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
4 hours * 60 = 240 minutes.
240 / 80 = 3 minutes for each question on the average.
some will take more.
some will take less.
the overall average, however, needs to be less than or equal to 3 minutes per question if you expect to answer them all.

Answer by ikeoddy(3) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Assume that each question takes the same amount of time to answer. Let this time be x minutes.

80 questions can be answered in 4 hours = 4*60 minutes = 240 minutes
1 question can be answered in x minutes

If we utilize proportions,
240/80 = x/1

Thus, x = 3.

Hence, it will take 3 minutes to answer each question.

RELATED QUESTIONS
A chimp is taking a multiple-choice test. Of course, the chimp can't read and is guessing (answered by stanbon)
The distance between town A & town B is 80 miles, if you are traveling at the speed of 80 (answered by Alan3354)
In a test, Dora has answered only 4/5 of the questions and 3 of them are wrong. It is... (answered by Theo)
Hi I've been messing with this problem for so long now and I'm still not sure how to... (answered by Edwin McCravy)
A painter can paint 2.3 walls every hour. There are 64 walls to paint. How long will it... (answered by jerryguo41)
You are taking a quiz that has 8 multiple-choice questions. If each question has 5... (answered by ikleyn)
There are 132 queations on the test.You can put 3 questions on each page.If it takes 7... (answered by stanbon)
an unprepared student makes a random guesses on all questions if her multiple choice... (answered by robertb,edjones)
If I'm driving 80 miles an hour and my destanation is 80 miles away how long will it take (answered by Alan3354)