Six classrooms lost electricity this morning for 47 minutes. Determine the percent of an hour that the classrooms were without electricity. Use a percent model to make your calculations, rounded to the nearest tenth of a percent. Type a numerical answer in the space provided. Do not include a % sign or spaces in your answer.

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Keira Vasquez

Mathematics

5 April, 05:49

Six classrooms lost electricity this morning for 47 minutes. Determine the percent of an hour that the classrooms were without electricity. Use a percent model to make your calculations, rounded to the nearest tenth of a percent. Type a numerical answer in the space provided. Do not include a % sign or spaces in your answer.

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Makenna Boyle · Answer 1

They were without electricity for 47 minutes ... determine the percent of an hr ... so 1 hr = 60 minutes ... so they were out 47 out of 60 minutes ...

47/60 = 0.783 = 78.3% ... so just type in 78.3 because ur not supposed to include the percent sign