symbolicallyClaire read for "x" minutes
Ted read for 3/5 more than that. → This means that he read "x" minutes and then 3/5x more, symbolically:

The term "x" is not alone, there is a hidden coefficient of 1 multiplying it

To simplify the expression you have to add both coefficients

The fraction 8/5 expressed as a decimal value is 1.6, then the equation that relates the minutes that Claire and Ted read is
