Andy took a reading test.He read 97 words per minute.If a book has an average of 250 words on a page,how many pages can Andy read in one hour ?
97 words/min x (1 page/250 words) x (60 min/1 hour) = ??
Note min cancels with min. words cancel with words. What's left? ?? pages/hour which is what you want for the units. Check my thinking. Check my work.
To find out how many pages Andy can read in one hour, we need to know his reading speed in words per minute and the average number of words on a page.
First, we need to calculate how many words Andy can read in one hour. We can do this by multiplying his reading speed (97 words per minute) by 60 minutes (one hour):
Words read per hour = 97 words/minute * 60 minutes/hour = 5820 words/hour
Next, we can calculate how many pages Andy can read in one hour. We divide the total number of words read per hour by the average number of words on a page (250 words/page):
Pages read per hour = 5820 words/hour / 250 words/page ≈ 23.28 pages/hour
Since we cannot have a fraction of a page, we round down to the nearest whole number.
Therefore, Andy can read approximately 23 pages in one hour.