Question

Jim read 24 pages in 40 minutes on Tuesday and 18 pages in 24 minutes on Wednesday. Are the ratios of pages read to minutes on Tuesday and Wednesday proportional?

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation: For this question, we just need to represent our proportions by day in form of fractions.

Step 1:

On Tuesday Jim reads 24 pages in 40 mins so we have

`(24)/(40)`

On Wednesday Jim reads 18 pages in 24 mins so we have

`(18)/(24)`

Step 2: Now all we need to do is to calculate the divisions and compare if they are equal or different

`\begin{gathered} (24)/(40)=0.6 \\ (18)/(24)=0.75 \\ so\text{ }(24)/(40)\\e(18)/(24) \end{gathered}`

Final answer: As we can see above both proportions are different so the final answer is that the ratios of pages that Jim reads per minute on Tuesday and Wednesday are not proportional.