Question

tow stundents are reading a book ketin reads 6 pages a day. Tameka reads 5 pages a day, but he starts sooner and already read 15 pages. write a system of equations to represent the situation using u for days and p for pages.

Answer 1

Tameka: P= 6u

Ketin: P= 5u+15

Explanation:

Tameka reads at a rate of 6 pages per day, therefore her equation must be 6 * (the number of days he has read) in order to equal the total number of pages she has read.

Ketin on the other hand has already read 15 pages so the amount of pages he has read must include the already completed pages and his rate of reading 5 pages each day in order to equal his total number of pages.

If you would like to solve the problem, just set both systems equal to each other since they represent expressions for the same variable!

Hope this helps :)