Question

Juan is reading Harry Potter and the Chambers of Secret! He reads his book 25 pages per hour for a certain number of hours, every day.

Part A: If the book has 250 pages, write an equation that can be used to determine how long it will take Juan to read the entire book.
Part B: If Juan reads for 3 hours today, how many pages will he have read thus far?
a) Part A: time = total pages/pages per hour, Part B: 75 pages
b) Part A: time = total pages/pages per hour, Part B: 50 pages
c) Part A: time = total pages/pages per hour, Part B: 100 pages
d) Part A: time = total pages/pages per hour, Part B: 125 pages

Answer 1

Juan will need 10 hours to read a 250-page book at a rate of 25 pages per hour. If he reads for 3 hours, he will have read 75 pages thus far. The correct answers are a) Part A: time = total pages / pages per hour, Part B: 75 pages.

Step-by-step explanation:

To answer Juan's question about how long it will take to read Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, we can establish an equation that accounts for the pages read per hour and the total number of pages.

The equation for Part A of the question would be time = total pages / pages per hour.

Thus, we determine the time it takes to read the entire book by dividing the total number of pages, 250, by the number of pages Juan can read per hour, which is 25.

This calculation gives us time = 250 pages / 25 pages per hour = 10 hours.

For Part B, if Juan reads for 3 hours today at a rate of 25 pages per hour, then he will have read 3 hours × 25 pages per hour = 75 pages so far.

Therefore, the correct answers are Part A: time = total pages / pages per hour, Part B: 75 pages.