Olivia set aside 5/6 of an hour for homework after school each day. How many hours of homework does she do in 5 days?

Answer 1

To find out how many hours of homework Olivia does in 5 days, we can multiply the amount of homework time she sets aside each day by the number of days.

Olivia sets aside $\frac{5}{6}$ of an hour for homework each day. Therefore, in 5 days, the total time she spends on homework is:

$$5\times \frac{5}{6}=\frac{25}{6}$$

Now, we can convert $\frac{25}{6}$ hours into a mixed number to understand it better:

$$\frac{25}{6}=4\frac{1}{6}$$

This means that Olivia does 4 hours and $\frac{1}{6}$ of an hour of homework in 5 days.

To express $\frac{1}{6}$ of an hour in minutes, we can multiply it by 60 (since there are 60 minutes in an hour):

$$\frac{1}{6}\times 60=10\text{ minutes}$$

So, Olivia does a total of 4 hours and 10 minutes of homework in 5 days.

Thus, the final answer is:

$$\frac{25}{6}\text{ hours or 4 hours and 10 minutes}$$