If Tim spends \(\frac{1}{3}\) of each weekday sleeping and about \(\frac{7}{24}\) of each weekday in school, what fraction of a weekday does Tim spend either sleeping or in school?
Answer (2)
Tim spends 1/3 each weekday sleeping and 7/24 in school. We can write 1/3 as 8/24 so we have a common denominator. Now we can see that Tim sleeps for 1/24 time of a weekday more then he spends in school.
I hope that's what you meant.
Tim spends 8 5 of a weekday sleeping or in school when we add the fractions of time spent on each activity. We converted 3 1 to 24 8 to find a common denominator before simplifying the total. The final answer is 8 5 .
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