Is 1/5 of 3 meters the same as 3/5 meters?

Don't know how to find x given these segment lengths

You were told that the amount of time lapsed between consecutive trades on the new york stock exchange followed a normal distribution with a mean of 15 seconds. you were also told that the probability that the time lapsed between two consecutive trades to fall between 16 to 17 seconds was 13%. the probability that the time lapsed between two consecutive trades would fall below 13 seconds was 7%. what is the probability that the time lapsed between two consecutive trades will be between 14 and 15 seconds?

Alistair has 5 half-pounds chocalate bars. it takes 1 1/2 pounds of chocalate,broken into chunks, to make a batch of cookies. how many batches can alistair mke with chocalate he has on his hand?