{"id":20114,"date":"2025-06-14T07:48:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T07:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/?p=20114"},"modified":"2025-06-14T07:48:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T07:48:48","slug":"lola-needs-to-sign-96-invitations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/lola-needs-to-sign-96-invitations\/","title":{"rendered":"Lola needs to sign 96 invitations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lola needs to sign 96 invitations. Using a stopwatch that measures time to tenths of a second, it takes Lola 5.3 seconds to sign her full name. Going by the accuracy of the stopwatch, which is the most accurate determination for the number of minutes Lola needs to sign all 96 invitations? 3.3 minutes 3.3125 minutes 8.48 minutes 8.5 minutes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><strong>The correct answer and explanation is:<\/strong><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Correct Answer: 8.48 minutes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2705 Step-by-Step Explanation:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Lola needs to sign <strong>96 invitations<\/strong>, and it takes her <strong>5.3 seconds<\/strong> to sign <strong>each<\/strong> one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83e\uddee Step 1: Multiply the number of invitations by the time per signature<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>96&nbsp;invitations\u00d75.3&nbsp;seconds\/invitation=508.8&nbsp;seconds96 \\text{ invitations} \\times 5.3 \\text{ seconds\/invitation} = 508.8 \\text{ seconds}<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83e\uddee Step 2: Convert seconds to minutes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>There are <strong>60 seconds<\/strong> in a minute. So: 508.8&nbsp;seconds60&nbsp;seconds\/minute=8.48&nbsp;minutes\\frac{508.8 \\text{ seconds}}{60 \\text{ seconds\/minute}} = 8.48 \\text{ minutes}<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83c\udfaf Step 3: Choose the most <strong>accurate<\/strong> determination from the options:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>3.3 minutes<\/strong> \u2192 too small<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>3.3125 minutes<\/strong> \u2192 also too small (and inaccurate)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>8.48 minutes<\/strong> \u2705 <strong>Correct<\/strong> (this is the accurate conversion)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>8.5 minutes<\/strong> \u2192 slightly rounded up, but not the most accurate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udccc Why 8.48 minutes is the most accurate:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The question specifies <strong>accuracy based on the stopwatch<\/strong>, which measures to the <strong>tenth of a second<\/strong>. Since 5.3 seconds is already precise to one decimal place, we need to carry that precision through the calculation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By multiplying precisely and converting properly to minutes, we get <strong>8.48 minutes<\/strong>, which is not rounded and thus maintains the accuracy dictated by the precision of the original timing device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2705 Final Answer:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8.48 minutes<\/strong> is the most accurate determination of how long Lola will take to sign all 96 invitations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lola needs to sign 96 invitations. Using a stopwatch that measures time to tenths of a second, it takes Lola 5.3 seconds to sign her full name. Going by the accuracy of the stopwatch, which is the most accurate determination for the number of minutes Lola needs to sign all 96 invitations? 3.3 minutes 3.3125 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quiz-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20115,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20114\/revisions\/20115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}