{"id":33760,"date":"2025-06-23T11:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/?p=33760"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:00:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T11:00:57","slug":"monday-math-problem-divya-started-her-math-homework-at-402-p-m-and-finished-it-at-420-p-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/monday-math-problem-divya-started-her-math-homework-at-402-p-m-and-finished-it-at-420-p-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Math Problem Divya started her math homework at 4:02 p.m. and finished it at 4:20 p.m."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Monday Math Problem Divya started her math homework at 4:02 p.m. and finished it at 4:20 p.m. Maria started her math homework 2 minutes before Divya started, but spent twice as much time working on it. What time did Maria finish her math homwork<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">The Correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong><br>Maria finished her math homework at <strong>4:38 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Explanation<\/strong><br>To find when Maria finished her homework, we need to determine two things: how long she worked and when she started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, let us look at Divya\u2019s homework time.<br>Divya started her homework at 4:02 p.m. and finished at 4:20 p.m. To find how long she worked, subtract the start time from the end time. From 4:02 p.m. to 4:20 p.m. is 18 minutes. This means Divya spent 18 minutes working on her math homework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, we are told that Maria started her homework 2 minutes before Divya. Since Divya started at 4:02 p.m., subtracting 2 minutes from that time means Maria started at 4:00 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now we need to find how long Maria worked. According to the problem, Maria spent <strong>twice as much time<\/strong> as Divya. Divya worked for 18 minutes, so Maria worked for 18 \u00d7 2 = 36 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that we know when Maria started and how long she worked, we can figure out when she finished. Maria started at 4:00 p.m. and worked for 36 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To find her finishing time, add 36 minutes to 4:00 p.m.<br>4:00 p.m. plus 30 minutes is 4:30 p.m., and 6 more minutes takes us to 4:36 p.m. So, Maria finished her math homework at <strong>4:36 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, this does not match the original answer given above. Let&#8217;s double-check.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wait \u2014 Divya started at 4:02 p.m. and worked until 4:20 p.m., which is 18 minutes. Maria started <strong>2 minutes before<\/strong> 4:02 p.m., meaning she started at <strong>4:00 p.m.<\/strong> If she worked for <strong>twice as long<\/strong>, then 18 \u00d7 2 = <strong>36 minutes<\/strong>. Adding 36 minutes to <strong>4:00 p.m.<\/strong> brings us to <strong>4:36 p.m.<\/strong> \u2014 not 4:38 p.m. as stated above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, the correct answer is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Maria finished her math homework at 4:36 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"852\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/learnexams-banner8-543.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/learnexams-banner8-543.jpeg 852w, https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/learnexams-banner8-543-250x300.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/learnexams-banner8-543-768x923.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 852px) 100vw, 852px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday Math Problem Divya started her math homework at 4:02 p.m. and finished it at 4:20 p.m. Maria started her math homework 2 minutes before Divya started, but spent twice as much time working on it. What time did Maria finish her math homwork The Correct Answer and Explanation is: Answer:Maria finished her math homework [&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-33760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quiz-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33760","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=33760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33762,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33760\/revisions\/33762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}