Answer:
9 hours
Step-by-step explanation:
For this problem, we simply need to rewrite the goal length, 3/5 miles, into our ratio of time length equivalence, 1 hour per 1/15 miles. To do this we find the common denominator to be 15 and rewrite it as so:
3/5
= 3*3 / 5 * 3
= 9 / 15
And since it takes 1 hour per 1/15 mile of road, we can perform the division to find the amount of time:
9/15 / 1/15
= 9/15 * 15/1
= ( 9 * 15 ) / ( 15 * 1 )
= 9 / 1
= 9
Hence, it will take the crew 9 hours to repave the road.
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