Answer to the word math problem

Question

Another another group of students playing in 6 rose bushes it took them two hours because they took three breaks if the amount of time to plant a rose bush with a quarter hour how long was each break if the brakes were equal amounts of time

Answer 1

A quarter hour = 15 minutes. We will call the number of minutes of each break "x".

It might help to draw a picture (hard to do here but I will try)

plant a bush plant a bush break plant a bush break plant a bush break plant a bush plant a bush

15 min 15 min x 15 min x 15 min x 15 min 15 min

Add them all up. 15 minutes times 6 = 90 minutes. The three breaks = 3x

Add breaks and bush planting minutes together and set equal to total time (2 hours = 120 minutes)

90 + 3x = 120

Solve with algebra

3x = 30

x = 10

Each break is 10 minutes long.