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Doug read 231 pages in 7 hours.he read the same number of pages each hour.how many pages did he read in 1 hour

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If we let
p be the number of pages read in 1 hour, then in 7 hours Doug reads
7p pages. We know that this number of pages is 231, so we have


7p=231 \iff p = (231)/(7) = 33

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