Question

kojo wants to be an author. To improve his writing skills, every day after school he writes 3 pages of a story he is working on. Kojo has been writing his story for d days. He has a total of 81 pages completed. Write an equation to describe this situation.

Answer 1

(a) 3d=81

(b) 27

Explanation:

every day, kojo write 3 pages

number of days he has written his story= d days

therefore number of pages he has written= 3d

from the final sentence,

3d= 81

(a) the equation to describe the situation:

3d= 81

(b) number of days kojo has been writing his story

3d= 81

dividing through by d

3d/3= 81/3

d = 27

therefore number of days = 27