Question

Michelle read 33 pages of her book on the weekend and then read 19 pages per day. Jillian read 45 pages of her book on the weekend and then read 23 pages per day. Write an inequality to represent the number of days that Michelle must read in order to read more pages than Jill.

Answer 1

Ann read 34 pages of her book today.

We are given that Ann reads 10 pages of her book everyday, so we know that Ann reads 10 pages today. We are also given that she reads an additional 2 pages for every free minute she has. Today, she has 12 free minutes, so for each of those 12 minutes, she reads 2 additional pages. Thus, the amount of pages she reads in her free times is found by multiplying 2 times 12.

Amount read in free time = 2 × 12 = 24

Now, we have that Ann read 10 pages as she does every day, and she read an additional 24 pages in her free time. Therefore, the total number of pages that Ann read today is equal to 10 plus 24.

Total pages read today = 10 + 24 = 34

We get that Ann read a total of 34 pages of her book today.