If a college basketball game is 40 minutes how can 7 players play an equal length of time?

Answer 1

They can't, at least not if the seven players played for the same team and those seven were the only players to play for the team that game. Since 5 players play at any one time, there are 200 minutes (5x40) of playing time per team. If each of the 7 players played 28 minutes and 34 seconds that would leave 2 seconds left over. However, if nine players played for a team in a game, 2 of the players could play 30 minutes and the other 7 could play 20 minutes.