Plumbing From Scratch Mia is a plumber and she is setting up the pipe system for a new house. In one hour, she can connect 5 pipes together. The first pipe will never connect to the last the very last pipe. This house is going to require assembling together 32 consecutive pipes. How many hours will this take her? Assume she takes no breaks. If you get a partial hour in your answer, write your answer in hours and minutes.

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Makenzie Rosales

2 February, 00:22

Plumbing From Scratch Mia is a plumber and she is setting up the pipe system for a new house. In one hour, she can connect 5 pipes together. The first pipe will never connect to the last the very last pipe. This house is going to require assembling together 32 consecutive pipes. How many hours will this take her? Assume she takes no breaks. If you get a partial hour in your answer, write your answer in hours and minutes.

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Paloma Bowman · Answer 1

6 hours and 24 minutes.

Step-by-step explanation:

If she can connect 5 pipes in one hour, to find out how much time it will take her to assemble 32 pipes we would have to divide the total amount of pipes by the number of pipes she can assemble in one hour.

This equals 32/5 = 6.4

It will take her 6.4 hours. We will transform the 0.4 into minutes.

We know that one hour has 60 minutes. Therefore, the number of minutes in our answer would be (60) (0.4) = 24 minutes.

It will take her 6 hours and 24 minutes.