Question

logan and joseph are running backs for their school football team. in the last game logan played 1/5 of the game and jospeh played 5/9 of the game if the game was 60 minutes long, how many more minutes did joesph play than logan

Answer 1

First we find the time for Logan.

Logan was in the game 1/5 of the time. Since the time of the game was 60 minutes, to calculate the minutes that Logan played, we multiply 1/5 by 60:

$\frac{1}{5}\times60=\frac{1\times60}{5}=\frac{60}{5}=12$

Logan was 12 minutes in the game.

Now we find the time for Joseph.

Joseph was in the game 5/9 of the 60 minutes. To find the time that Joseph was in the game, we multiply 5/9 by 60:

$\frac{5}{9}\times60=\frac{5\times60}{9}=\frac{300}{9}=33.33$

Joseph was in the game 33.33 minutes.

The difference in their times is:

$33.33-12=21.33$

Answer: 21.33 minutes