In a school there are 10 periods per day of 40 minutes each. Students want to reduce the number of periods but the principal doesn't want to reduce the number of working hours. How can the principal to reduce the number of periods to 8 without changing the total working hours?
50 minutes
Number of periods108Time for each period(In minutes)40y
10×40=8×y↔y=10×408=50 minutes.
Make periods each of 50 minutes.