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Answer 1 · 2017-12-09T02:19:30

See a solution process below:

First, we can write $5 1/4" hours"$ as $(5" hours" + 1/4" hours")$

So, first we can add the $5" hours"$ to 7:00 PM giving:

$7:00" PM" + 5 = 12:00" AM"$

If $1" hour" = 60" minutes"$ then we can divide each side of the equation by $color(red)(4)$ to find out how many minutes in a $1/4$ of an hour:

$(1" hour")/color(red)(4) = 60/color(red)(4)" minutes"$

$1/4" hour" = 15" minutes"$

We can now add the 15 minutes to the result we had from the previous step giving:

$12:00" AM" + 15" minutes" = 12:15" AM"$