Question

Ms. Jackson read 400 pages in her book over 10 days.

Ms. Gilpin read 240 pages over 5 days.
1. Who read more pages in one day?
Circle One: Ms. Jackson or Ms. Gilpin
2: How do you know?
3: Fill out the following chart for Ms. Jackson. ​

Answer 1

1. Ms.G read more because in one day she read 48 pages vs. ms. J who read 40 pages.
2. I got this answer because I divided both by 5. The first thing I had to do was convert/simplify Ms.J to 200 pages in 5 days.

Answer 2

Answer: If you have easy numbers like this, the problem os easy to solve. So, Ms J read 400 pages over 10 days, ms G read 240 pages to 5 day. We know that 5 if half of 10. If you make the numbers on days the same, but still increase the number of pages, you get, Ms G read more pages, by 20 pages a day.