James burned his hand in a freak accident. It takes him 4 weeks to heal enough to get a skin graft. After that it takes him 50% longer than that to heal from the skin graft. How long did he take to recover from everything?
Thoughts? Step-by-step reasoning:
The skin graft took 4 * .5 = 2 weeks longer to recover from than the previous. So that means it took 4 + 2 = 6 weeks to recover from it. That means he took 4 + 6 = 10 weeks to recover from everything.
Thus, the answer is 10.