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Joaquin has been working on homework for 3 1/2 hours. If each assignment takes him of 1/4 an hour, how many assignments has he completed? Select one OA. 13 O B. 14 OC. 15 OD. 16

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The total amount of time he has spent doing homework:

[tex]3\frac{1}{2}[/tex]

And the time it takes to complete each assignment:

[tex]\frac{1}{4}[/tex]

To find the number of assignments he has completed in that time, we divide the total time 3 1/2 by the time for each assignment 1/4:

[tex]3\frac{1}{2}\div\frac{1}{4}[/tex]

To make this division we need to convert 3 1/2 to a fraction as follows:

[tex]3\frac{1}{2}=\frac{3\times2+1}{2}=\frac{6+1}{2}=\frac{7}{2}[/tex]

We multiply the whole number by the denominator 3x2 and we add to that the numerator 1, and divide that by the original denominator 2.

Now instead of 3 1/2 we use 7/2 for our division:

[tex]\frac{7}{2}\div\frac{1}{4}[/tex]

And we use the formula to divide two fractions, which is:

[tex]\frac{a}{b}\div\frac{c}{d}=\frac{a\times d}{b\times c}[/tex]

Applying this to our division:

[tex]\frac{7}{2}\div\frac{1}{4}=\frac{7\times4}{2\times1}[/tex]

Solving the operations:

[tex]\frac{7}{2}\div\frac{1}{4}=\frac{28}{2}=14[/tex]

Answer: 14 assignments