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Q.

A school has 9 periods a day each of 40 minutes duration. How long would each period last, if the school has 8 periods a day, assuming the number of school hours to be the same?


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a

45 minutes

b

46 minutes

c

42 minutes

d

43 minutes 

answer is A.

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Detailed Solution

Given,
Duration of each period if there are 9 periods in a day =40 minutes  .  Let the duration of each period if there are 8 periods in a day be x minutes.
Then,

Duration (in minutes)

40

x

Number of periods

9

8

We can clearly observe that, lesser the number of periods, more will be the duration of each period.
Therefore, this is the case of inverse proportion.
As this is case of inverse proportion, therefore the product will remain constant throughout table that is,
40×9=x×8   
Solving the equation,
8x=360 x= 360 8 x=45   Hence, each period would be 45 minutes long if there are 8 periods in a day.
Therefore, option 1 is correct.
 
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