Problema Solution

Summer days are long in Australia if there is three times more daylight than night how many daylight hours are there ?

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Let 'x' represent the hours of the nightlight then there is '3x' daylight.

Since the day has 24 hours we have:

x + 3x = 24

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x = 6 hr

3*6 = 18 hr

There are 18 hours of daylight.