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Mary can read 20 pages in 30 minutes. How long would it take her to read a 100 page book??????????

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It would take 150 minutes
User Donald Murray
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Answer: hope this helps!!

Step-by-step explanation: This is a proportions problem:

22 pages → 30 minutes

100 pages → x minutes

The proportion is

22/100 = 30/x

Then

x = (100/22)(30) minutes = 136.4 minutes.

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