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All right you math people have got some weird word

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problems for you Here we go Billy decides to record

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the amount of time he reads outside of class for

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each book that he reads While the logs from the

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time he spent reading slapped her house five otherwise pronounced

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slaughterhouse five is shown below it's we got a quarter

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and a half and then three fourth with little red

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dot thing He's here So how long has billy spent

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reading Slaughterhouse five to date Well this billy's reality seems

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to be way better than that of the main character

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of slaughterhouse five While this billy sitting around reading and

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making marks in his log book on the other billy

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is getting firebombed and kidnapped by aliens for their earthlings

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Ooh alright we'll each mark above forthe means that billy

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red for one fourth of an hour which he did

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on four separate occasions He one two three four with

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that in mind set up an expression that calculates the

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total amount of time he read taking the other two

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columns into consideration And that gets us this little equation

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thinking four times a fourth and eight times a half

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and then three times three fourths Well that's less than

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ideal for adding fractions this little thing here So let's

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convert all this stuff and improper fractions with common denominators

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of four Well once that's done we can then convert

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the final answer back into a mixed number So that

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gets us What is that for Over four times one

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Four So that's four force that we have eight times

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a half That's eight over to which gets us We'll

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do that in a force of sixteen over for some

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We have three times three fourths seventy three times three

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is nine And i'm not for thinkit's four plus sixteen

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plus nine twenty nine over four And then if we

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make that a mixed number we have seven and a

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quarter So the answer is seven hours and then some

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Since one fourth is able to point two five Well

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it might be tempting to define and then some as

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twenty five minutes is indeed But guess again One fourth

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of sixty minutes i'ii one hour is fifteen minutes So

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billy spent seven hours and fifteen minutes on his book

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so far But we can't help wonder why bill his

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keeping this log book Maybe he thinks it's fun to

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see time all at once Careful there billy You might

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find yourself being hauled off to the trial family Dorian

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zoo pretty soon

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