Today I worked 6 hours [I Want To Be Better At Math]

@gfantasy ahhhhh okay. I had to multiply the per minute count by 60 minutes. Thanks for the help.

@twiigss I find helpful when doing conversions to specify what the number represents... So I wouldn't write down just:

"10 pieces ÷ 205 min = 0.0487804"

0.0487804 [i]what[/i]...?

0.0487804 [i]pieces[/i] per [i]minute[/i]

Then you realize... "Oh, it's [i]per minute[/i], so one hour would be 60 X that..."

Hope that helps :)

@gfantasy At the time of writing I wasn't being aware that the 0.0487804 answer was per minute. Then i saw your answer and made the connection.

I'm definitely not the best at math. Easy stuff like that is over my head. If it's whole numbers I'm dividing, adding etc. and what not, okay that's easy.

@ArishMell Maybe I'm taking words and making them too literal then.

I always thought you would say, for example, if I did 10 pieces in 30 minutes, isn't the correct thing to say, Ten divided up into thirty minutes? That's how I always say it anyways, and that makes me think 10 / 30. But you're saying you take 30 minutes and divide by 10 pieces?

@twiigss Oh, I do that too, occasionally!

Maths was never my strong point. I could see where you'd gone wrong there, but anything much more advanced and abstract becomes too hard for me.

Yes - that's right. You know how long it takes to make a number of items, so to find how long 1 takes, divide the total time by the total number of items.

You can prove it to yourself by reversing the question. In fact it's a very good way to make sure of having done the original calculation properly.

So, reversing, and simplifying your numbers a bit, if it takes you exactly 20 minutes to make 1 item, how long will you take to make 3?

Then it's 20 X 3 = 60 minutes = I hour.

And 10 items? 10 X 20 minutes = 200 minutes = 3 h: 20 mins.