The length of a wooden fence between two posts is 434 feet. It takes 2 hours and 40 minutes to paint this length of the fence. How many hours will it take to

Question

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Answer 1

Hi Trolei;

 

Your question is incomplete.
However, we can set up a proportion to find out how
long it will take to paint whatever total length of
fence we have:
 
2 hrs 40 minutes = 2 2/3 hours or 8/3 hours
 
434 is to 8/3 as ___ ft is to x
 
Example.... If we had 2170 total feet to paint:
434/(8/3) = 2170/x
434x = 2170(8/3)
x = 2170(8/3)/434
x = 13 1/3 hours or 13 hours 20 minutes

Answer 2

Until you finish the problem all we can say is 

 

434 feet in 2 and 2/3 hours 

 

434 feet in 8/3 hours

 

434 divided by 8/3 =

 

434 * 3/8 = 

 

162.75 feet per hour 

 

or 162 feet and 9 in per hour