Brianna is taking a writing assignment that has three sections she has a total of 5/6 of an hour to finish all the sections if she's allowed the same amount of time to finish each section how much time does she have to spend on each section A 5/18 hour B 2 1/2 hours C 3 3/5 hour D 2/5 hour

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To find out how much time Brianna has for each section, we need to divide the total time she has, which is \( \frac{5}{6} \) of an hour, by the number of sections, which is 3.

Calculating the time for each section:

\[ \text{Time per section} = \frac{\text{Total time}}{\text{Number of sections}} = \frac{\frac{5}{6}}{3} \]

Dividing by a whole number is the same as multiplying by its reciprocal:

\[ \frac{\frac{5}{6}}{3} = \frac{5}{6} \times \frac{1}{3} = \frac{5 \times 1}{6 \times 3} = \frac{5}{18} \]

So, the amount of time Brianna has to spend on each section is \( \frac{5}{18} \) of an hour.

Therefore, the answer is A) \( \frac{5}{18} \) hour.