Question

Nicolas types out 32 lines per page to come up with a 480- page travel memoir. How many pages would the manuscript contain, if it had 20 lines per page?

Answer 1

By calculating the total lines in the manuscript and then dividing by the new number of lines per page, we find that the manuscript would contain 768 pages if it had 20 lines per page, making it likely the professor will need to read more than 1,050 pages.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine how many pages the manuscript would contain if it had 20 lines per page, we can use a simple mathematical calculation. First, we need to calculate the total number of lines in the 480-page travel memoir, which is 32 lines per page times 480 pages. Then, to find out how many pages the manuscript would be with 20 lines per page, we divide the total number of lines by 20.

Let's do the math:

1. Total number of lines = 32 lines/page × 480 pages = 15,360 lines.
2. Number of pages at 20 lines per page = Total number of lines ÷ 20 lines/page = 15,360 lines ÷ 20 lines/page = 768 pages.

Without doing any calculations, it is indeed likely the professor will need to read a total of more than 1,050 pages, because when the number of lines per page decreases from 32 to 20, the total number of pages will increase, resulting in more pages than the original 480 pages.