Iris is asked to sweep the gymnasium floor after a basketball game. This requires her to push a sweeper from one end of the gym to the other and repeating the pattern until she has covered the entire floor. She completes 2/3 of the floor in 1/3 of an hour. At this rate, how long will it take her to complete the entire floor?(1 point) Responses

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To find out how long it will take Iris to complete the entire floor, we can first determine her rate of work.

Iris completes \( \frac{2}{3} \) of the floor in \( \frac{1}{3} \) of an hour.

To find the time it takes to complete the whole floor, we can set up the following proportion:

If \( \frac{2}{3} \) of the floor takes \( \frac{1}{3} \) of an hour, then \( 1 \) (the entire floor) would take:

\[ \text{Time for entire floor} = \frac{1}{3} \text{ hour} \div \frac{2}{3} = \frac{1}{3} \times \frac{3}{2} = \frac{1}{2} \text{ hour} \]

Thus, it will take Iris \( \frac{1}{2} \) hour (or 30 minutes) to complete the entire floor.