Stacy is painting her bedroom. She is able to paint 3/4 of the bedroom in 3 hours. At this rate, how long will it take her to paint the entire room?
A: 9/4 hours
B: 12 hours
C: 6 hours
D: 4 hours
If Stacy is able to paint 3/4 of the bedroom in 3 hours, then we can calculate the rate at which she paints as 3/4 divided by 3 = 1/4 per hour.
To paint the entire room (1 whole), it will therefore take Stacy 1/(1/4) = 4 hours.
Thus, the correct answer is D: 4 hours.
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If Stacy is able to paint 3/4 of the bedroom in 3 hours, then we can calculate the rate at which she paints as 3/4 divided by 3 = 1/4 per hour.
Since Stacy is painting at a rate of 1/4 of the room per hour, it will take her 4 times that amount, or 4/(1/4) = 16 hours to paint the entire room.
Therefore, the correct answer is not provided among the options.
To find out how long it will take Stacy to paint the entire room, we need to determine how long it takes her to paint one-fourth of the room, since she can paint three-fourths in 3 hours.
If 3/4 of the room takes 3 hours, then 1/4 of the room will take 1/3 of the time.
So, 1/4 of the room will take 3 hours / 3 = 1 hour.
Therefore, it will take Stacy 1 hour to paint one-fourth of the room.
Since the entire room consists of four equal parts, it will take Stacy 1 hour * 4 = 4 hours to paint the entire room.
Therefore, the correct answer is option D: 4 hours.
To solve this problem, we need to determine how long it would take Stacy to paint the remaining 1/4 of the bedroom, as she has already painted 3/4 of it in 3 hours.
Since Stacy is able to paint 3/4 of the bedroom in 3 hours, we can think of this as a fraction of the room that she can paint per hour. First, we need to find out how much she can paint in 1 hour.
To find out how much Stacy can paint in 1 hour, we divide the amount she can paint in 3 hours (3/4) by the number of hours (3).
So, 3/4 ÷ 3 = 1/4
We find that Stacy can paint 1/4 of the bedroom in 1 hour.
Since Stacy has already painted 3/4 of the bedroom, she now needs to paint only the remaining 1/4. If Stacy can paint 1/4 of the bedroom in 1 hour, to paint the entire room (4/4), it would take her 4 times longer.
Therefore, the answer is 4 hours.
So, the correct choice is option D: 4 hours.