Explain It In one night, George reads 3 chapters of a book with 27 chapters. After the second night, he has read a total of 8/27 of the book. Explain how you would determine the number of chapters George read the second night. Solve the problem.
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First of all, George has already read 3 chapters of a 27 chapter book. On the second night, he read 8/27 of the book. In order to make 3/27, which came from the amount of chapters George read the first night, into 8/27 we can subtract 3/27 from 8/27. The final answer would be 5/27. Therefore, George read 5/27 of the book on the second night.
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8/27 of 27 chapters is 8 chapters he read in two nights.
8 - 3 = 5 chapters the second night
To determine the number of chapters George read on the second night, we need to find the difference between what he had read by the end of the first night and what he had read by the end of the second night.
From the given information, we know that after the first night, George had read 3 chapters out of a total of 27 chapters. Therefore, by the end of the first night, he had completed 3/27 of the book.
After the second night, George has read a total of 8/27 of the book. To find out how many chapters he read on the second night, we subtract what he had read by the end of the first night from what he had read by the end of the second night.
8/27 - 3/27 = 5/27
Therefore, George would have read 5 chapters on the second night.