Question

Jasmine wants to organize her books in order of most number of pages to least number of pages. Jasmine's longest book has 396 pages and her shortest book has one-fourth as many pages as the longest. If the book in the middle of her shelf has three times the number of pages of the shortest book. Then how many pages does the middle book have?

Answer 1

I am pretty sure you would do 396x.25 on a calculator and then do that answer and x's it by 3 and that equals 297

Answer 2

297 pages

Explanation:

Number of pages of longest book = 396 pages

Now we are given that her shortest book has one-fourth as many pages as the longest.

Number of pages of shortest book =
`\frac{\text{Number of pages in longest book}}{4}`

=
`(396)/(4)`

=
`99`

Now we are given that the book in the middle of her shelf has three times the number of pages of the shortest book.

So, Number of pages in middle book:

=
`3 * \text{Number of pages of shortest book}`

=
`3 * 99`

=
`297`

Hence the middle book have 297 pages.