You have been cleaning diesel dispensers for 35 minutes. You have completed 6 dispensers. How many minutes has it taken you to clean 1 dispenser
Answer:
5 \(\frac{5}{6} minutes\) = 5.83 minutes
or
5 minutes 50 seconds
Step-by-step explanation:
Given: You have been cleaning diesel dispensers for 35 minutes. You have completed 6 dispensers.
Here we need to find the unit rate.
Here the unit rate represents time taken to clean 1 diesel dispensers.
Unit rate = \(\frac{time}{The number of diesel dispensers}\)
= \(\frac{35}{6}\)
= 5 \(\frac{5}{6} minutes\)
Now we can convert \(\frac{5}{6}\)minutes to seconds
1 minute = 60 seconds
\(\frac{5}{6} minute = \frac{5}{6} *60\)
= 5*10 seconds
= 50 seconds
Therefore, to clean 1 diesel dispenser you need 5 minutes 50 seconds.