2002 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 18

Problem

Gage skated $1$ hr $15$ min each day for $5$ days and $1$ hr $30$ min each day for $3$ days. How long would he have to skate the ninth day in order to average $85$ minutes of skating each day for the entire time?

$\text{(A)}\ \text{1 hr}\qquad\text{(B)}\ \text{1 hr 10 min}\qquad\text{(C)}\ \text{1 hr 20 min}\qquad\text{(D)}\ \text{1 hr 40 min}\qquad\text{(E)}\ \text{2 hr}$

Solution 1

Converting into minutes and adding, we get that she skated $75*5+90*3+x = 375+270+x = 645+x$ minutes total, where $x$ is the amount she skated on day $9$ . Dividing by $9$ to get the average, we get $\frac{645+x}{9}=85$ . Solving for $x$ , $645+x=765$ $x=120$ Now we convert back into hours and minutes to get $\boxed{\text{(E)}\ 2\ \text{hr}}$ .

Solution 2

For the first five days, each day you are 10 minutes short of 85 minutes. And for the nest three days, you are 5 minutes above 85 minutes. So in total you are missing 3*5-5*10 which equals to negative 35. So on the ninth day, to have an average of 85 minutes, you need to skate for 85+35 minutes, which is 120 minutes, or $\boxed{\text{(E)}\ 2\ \text{hr}}$ .

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