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Question 3 Cindy and Pam read their tavorite books, Cindy read for 4 hours and Pam read for 7 hours How much longer did Pam read than Cindy? A 23 hours 12 B 3 hours 31 hours D 12 5 12 hours Illuminate Education, Inc.

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Let:

tc = Time that cindy read

tp = Time that pam read

How much longer did Pam read than Cindy? we need to find the difference, so:


\begin{gathered} tc=4(3)/(4)=(19)/(4) \\ tp=7(2)/(3)=(23)/(3) \\ so\colon \\ d=tp-tc=(23)/(3)-(19)/(4)=(35)/(12)=2(11)/(12) \end{gathered}

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