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By october 19th, gordon had read 35 pages. starting october 20th, he decides to read the same number of pages each day until he finishes the book on october 30th. write and solve an equation to represent the situation. let p represent the number of pages read per day. how many pages does gordon read per day? (he chose city streets)

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Number of days from 20th to 30th October is 21 days. Assume "City Streets" consists of 665 pages.
The expression/equation is: 35+(21*p)=665
by solving the equation we will find Gordon has to read p = 30 pages/ day to finish the story.
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