In a school, total school hours are divided as follows: 20 minutes for morning prayer, 20 minutes for recess and 8 periods each of 40 minutes duration. If the prayer time and recess time are increased to 40 minutes each, how long would each period be, assuming the number of school hours to be the same? Share with your friends Share 1 Shruti Tyagi answered this Dear student, Total duration of school=Duration of morning prayer+Duration of recess+Duration of 8 periods=20min+20min+8×40min=40min+320min=360 minWhen the the morning and recess time is increased to 40 min each and Total duration of school remians the samethen,Total duration of school=Duration of morning prayer+Duration of recess+Duration of 8 periods⇒360 min=20+40min+20+40min+8×x min ...[where x be the duration of each period]⇒360 min=60 min+60 min+8x min⇒360 min-120min=8x min⇒240 min=8x min⇒x=2408⇒x=30 minthus the duration of each period when morning and recess time is increased is 30 min Regards -2 View Full Answer Aditi Rawat answered this I wanna know the answer for the same! Thank You! -1 Cristiano Ronaldo answered this Please find this answer -1 ÑÅmÃŇ JĀÏÑ answered this 35 min for per period 1