To find out the fractional part of a day spent sleeping, we can follow a simple calculation. A full day has 24 hours. If you sleep for 8 hours each day, you can express this as a fraction of the total hours in a day.
The calculation is:
Fraction of the day spent sleeping = (Hours of sleep) / (Total hours in a day)
In this case, it would be:
Fraction of the day spent sleeping = 8 hours / 24 hours
Simplifying that fraction, we divide both the numerator and the denominator by 8:
Fraction of the day spent sleeping = 1 / 3
This means that if you sleep for 8 hours each day, you spend one-third of your day sleeping.