Online notes for Math 15, Math for Liberal Arts taught in the Fall 2016 semester at Laney College by Prof. Hubbard.
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Links to homework 1, due Wednesday 17 June 2015
Link for prime factorization and all factors, with practice examples.
Roman and Hindu-Arabic numerals, fractions and decimals.
Practice for Roman to Hindu-Arabic and vice versa, fractions and decimals.
Practice for time conversion.
The following problems are in the form minutes:seconds. If the answer gives more than 60 minutes, write the answer as hours:minutes:seconds. Answers to the question below are in the comments.
18:34
- 6:58
42:23
41:07
43:01
42:18
+42:17
Borrow a minute to make 60 more seconds
ReplyDelete17:94
- 6:58
______
11:36
The sums of the minutes and seconds separately are
208:66
66 seconds becomes 1:06 and added to the minutes we get
209:06
209 divided by 60 gives us 3 hours and 29 minutes so the final answer is 3:29:06.