Question

Last Wednesday, two friends met up after school to read the book they were both assigned in Literature class. Beth can read 3 pages per minute, and she had already read 16 pages. Joseph, who has a reading speed of 2 pages per minute, had read 26 pages. Eventually,

they had read the same number of pages. How long did that take? How many pages had each of them read?

Answer 1

3x + 16 = 2x + 26

-2x -2x

x + 16 = 26

- 16 - 16

x = 10 min

3(10) + 16

46

2(10) + 26

46

Both read 46