Q. Mabel spends 4 hours to edit a 3 minute long video. She edits at a constant rate.How long does Mabel spend to edit a 15 -minute long video?hours
Determine Editing Rate: Determine the rate at which Mabel edits videos.Mabel spends 4 hours to edit a 3-minute video. To find her editing rate, we divide the total time spent by the length of the video.Rate =Video LengthTime SpentRate =3 minutes4 hoursTo keep the units consistent, we should convert the video length from minutes to hours since the time spent is in hours.There are 60 minutes in an hour, so 3 minutes is 603 hours.Rate =(603 hours)4 hours
Convert Video Length: Calculate Mabel's editing rate.Now we perform the division to find the rate.Rate = (603 hours)4 hoursRate = 0.05 hours4 hoursRate = 80 hours per hour (which means Mabel spends 80 hours editing for every hour of video)
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