Question

Mark plays soccer for $2\text{hours}$ in a day. He plays every day including Sundays. How many hours does he play soccer in $2\text{weeks}$? (Hint: $1\text{week}=7\text{days}$)

Answer 1

• Number of days in $1\text{week}=7$
• Number of weeks $=2$
• Total number of days $=$ Number of weeks $\times$ Number of days in $1\text{week}$

$=2\times 7$
$=14\text{days}$

• Number of hours Mark plays soccer in a day $=2$
• Total number of hours $=$ Number of hours Mark plays soccer in a day $\times$ Total number of days
• To write the multiplication equation, we need to know the product. Let us take it as $“f”$.
• Therefore, $f=2\times 14$

Let us use an area model to solve $2\times 14$.

• Mark plays soccer for $28\text{hours in}2\text{weeks}$

Hence, option B is correct.