You spend 20 minutes watching television. you then spend 1 hour reading email. write the ratio of the amount of time spent watching television to the amount of time spent reading email as a fraction in simplest form.

1 hour = 60 minutes

20 minutes = 1/4 of 60 minutes, which means 60 minutes = 4/4

when you write ratios, the larger number goes first - 60 minutes out of 15 minutes = 4/1, so the ratio in simplest form is 4:1

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Step-by-step explanation:

Ratio=20:60

Reducing to simplest form,20/60=1:3

it would be 3 ÷by 6 because the number on each side