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An English class has read the first 384 pages of their novel. If this is 75% of the entire book, how many total pages are in the novel?
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An English class has read the first 384 pages of their novel.

If this is 75% of the entire book, how many total pages are in the novel?

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x - the total number of pages


75\%x=384 \\ (75)/(100)x=384 \\ (3)/(4)x=384 \\ x=384 * (4)/(3) \\ x=128 * 4 \\ x=512

There are 512 pages in the novel.
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