Gail harvests the wool from 4 sheep. It takes her 3/5 of an hour to shear 1 sheep. How long does it take her to shear the sheep?

First let's find out how much it takes to shear one sheep.

Do a proportion

3/5 = x/60 (1 hour = 60 mins)

Cross multiply and divide

60 x 3 = 180

180 divided by 5 is 36

So it takes her 36 minutes for one sheep

36 x 4 = 144

144 divided by 60

Answer would be 2 hours and 24 minutes

3/5 of an hour x 4 sheep = 2 2/5 hours to shear all four sheep