Question

Joshua is writing a novel. He wrote the same number of pages each day for a 8 days. At the end of 8 days he had 136 pages complete. Write an equation relating x, the number of days, to y, the total pages.

Answer 1

8x = 136

Where: x = 17

Explanation:

Joshua is writing a novel. He wrote the same number of pages each day for a 8 days. At the end of 8 days he had 136 pages complete. Write an equation relating x, the number of days, to y, the total pages.

Let the number of pages read per day = x

Hence, the number of pages after 8 days = 8 × x = 8x

Total number of pages = y= 136

Therefore:an equation relating x, the number of days, to y, the total pages.

= 136 = 8x

Solving for x

136/8 = x

x = 17