Brianna is taking a writing assessment that has 3 sections. She has a total of 5/6

of an hour to finish all the sections. If she is allowed the same amount of time to finish each section, how much time does she have to spend on each section?(1 point)

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To find out how much time Brianna has for each section, we need to divide the total time she has by the number of sections.

Brianna has a total of \( \frac{5}{6} \) hour to complete 3 sections.

To find the time for each section, we divide \( \frac{5}{6} \) by 3:

\[ \text{Time per section} = \frac{5/6}{3} \]

This can be rewritten as:

\[ \text{Time per section} = \frac{5}{6} \times \frac{1}{3} \]

Now, multiply the numerators and then the denominators:

\[ \text{Time per section} = \frac{5 \times 1}{6 \times 3} = \frac{5}{18} \]

Thus, Brianna has \( \frac{5}{18} \) of an hour to spend on each section.

To convert this to minutes (since there are 60 minutes in an hour), we can multiply by 60:

\[ \frac{5}{18} \times 60 = \frac{5 \times 60}{18} = \frac{300}{18} = \frac{50}{3} \text{ minutes} \approx 16.67 \text{ minutes} \]

So Brianna has approximately 16 minutes and 40 seconds for each section.