Colby is making a home video consisting of a 5-minute introduction followed by several short skits. Each skit is 8 minutes long. If Colby's video is 181 minutes long, how many skits are in his video?

Question

A.
27
B.
23
C.
22
D.
17

Answer 1

To find out how many skits are in Colby's video, we can start by calculating the total duration of the skits.

1. The total length of the video is 181 minutes.
2. The introduction is 5 minutes.
3. Thus, the remaining time for the skits is:

\[ 181 \text{ minutes} - 5 \text{ minutes} = 176 \text{ minutes} \]

4. Each skit is 8 minutes long. To find out how many skits can fit into 176 minutes, we divide the remaining time by the length of each skit:

\[ \frac{176 \text{ minutes}}{8 \text{ minutes/skit}} = 22 \text{ skits} \]

Thus, the number of skits in Colby's video is 22.

The correct answer is C. 22.