+8261 If a MINECRAFT day lasts 24 minutes, how many days can you play in 2 hours? Please help. I need to know that. Thanks:)
+4473 Sorry for the late reply...had so many extra things happening yesterday and thought it would only take a few hours but time flew by!
For this question: we use proportions to solve for some unit given a conversion. In this case, we are asked to solve for # of minecraft days that can be played in 2 hours and are given the conversion of 1 minecraft day = 24 mins.
Now, we have minecraft days, hours, and mins as our units; however, we need 2 units since we want to have #minecraft day/#minute = #minecraft day/#minute. We convert the hours --> 2 hours --> 120 mins.
For proportions, we have the format just like above but the units can vary dramatically depending on what we want to find.
Plugging in what we already know: 1 minecraft day / 24 mins = #minecraft day [x] / 120 mins -->
Now, let's call what we want to find "x". By cross multiplying and noticing that we can cancel the mins units since we will end up with 120 minecraft day*mins / 24 mins = x, we get an x value of 5 minecraft days.
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Another method: Dimensional analysis
In science, especially chemistry, we use dimensional analysis to convert units and start out with something we already know, but not a conversion.
So, we will start with "2 hours" since that is the only available information we are given that is not a conversion.
2 hours X (60 mins / 1 hour) X (1 minecraft day / 24 mins) = 5 minecraft days.
By doing this, we can see that the hours cancel out, the mins cancel out, and we are left with minecraft days as the only unit. We simply multiply the numerator out and then divide by the numerator, just like a fraction to obtain our answer.
Notice that if we were asked for a dfferent unit and were given more more conversions, we could keep on continuing our dimensional analysis chain until we reach that desired unit.
+4473 Proportions: 1 day/24 mins = x / 120 mins (2 hours = 120 mins, we need same units)
x = 120 mins*day / 24 mins = 5 days.
+8261 Aziz, how many days can you play in 2 hours? I mean, explain it please. I am still confused.
+4473 Sorry for the late reply...had so many extra things happening yesterday and thought it would only take a few hours but time flew by!
For this question: we use proportions to solve for some unit given a conversion. In this case, we are asked to solve for # of minecraft days that can be played in 2 hours and are given the conversion of 1 minecraft day = 24 mins.
Now, we have minecraft days, hours, and mins as our units; however, we need 2 units since we want to have #minecraft day/#minute = #minecraft day/#minute. We convert the hours --> 2 hours --> 120 mins.
For proportions, we have the format just like above but the units can vary dramatically depending on what we want to find.
Plugging in what we already know: 1 minecraft day / 24 mins = #minecraft day [x] / 120 mins -->
Now, let's call what we want to find "x". By cross multiplying and noticing that we can cancel the mins units since we will end up with 120 minecraft day*mins / 24 mins = x, we get an x value of 5 minecraft days.
**************************************************************************************
Another method: Dimensional analysis
In science, especially chemistry, we use dimensional analysis to convert units and start out with something we already know, but not a conversion.
So, we will start with "2 hours" since that is the only available information we are given that is not a conversion.
2 hours X (60 mins / 1 hour) X (1 minecraft day / 24 mins) = 5 minecraft days.
By doing this, we can see that the hours cancel out, the mins cancel out, and we are left with minecraft days as the only unit. We simply multiply the numerator out and then divide by the numerator, just like a fraction to obtain our answer.
Notice that if we were asked for a dfferent unit and were given more more conversions, we could keep on continuing our dimensional analysis chain until we reach that desired unit.
+8261 Thanks!
You got it correct!
When I played it, it helped. Thanks!
