Question

Eva and Liam are reading a novel in their English class. Liam has red 17 less pages, then Eva house if they have red 265 pages combined how many pages did Liam read?

Answer 1

Answer: 124

Explanation:

Let's say that Eva has read "x" pages.

Then Liam has read "x - 17" pages.

If they have read 265 pages combined it means: x + x - 17 = 265

so if 2x - 17 is equal to 265 then

2x will be equal to 282

and x will be 141 --> This value shows how many pages Eva has read but we are looking for Liam so,

when we subtract 17 from 141 we find that Liam has read 124 pages in total.