Peter is reading a 103 page book. He has read three pages more than one fourth of the number of pages he hasn't yet read.
How many pages he has bot read?
Estimate how many days it will take Peter to finish the book if he reads about 8 pages per day.
I'm confused. I need help.
well he has read 28.75 pages from what I got figuring it out.
I estimate it would take him 9 and 3/8 days to finish the book at that rate:)
hope it helps
Let the number of pages he has read be x
then the number of pages not read is 103-x
"He has read three pages more than one fourth of the number of pages he hasn't yet read." -----> x-3 = 1/4(103-x)
4x-12 = 103-x
5x = 115
x = 23
He has read 23 pages.
103/8 = 12.875
So estimate it would take 13 days to read the books from the beginning.
To solve this problem, let's break it down step by step.
First, let's calculate how many pages Peter has read. We know that he has read three pages more than one fourth of the number of pages he hasn't yet read.
Let's represent the number of pages Peter hasn't read yet as "x". According to the information given, Peter has read x/4 + 3 pages.
Since Peter has read a total of 103 pages, we can set up an equation to solve for x:
x/4 + 3 = 103
To solve for x, we can subtract 3 from both sides of the equation:
x/4 = 100
Next, we can multiply both sides of the equation by 4 to isolate x:
x = 400
So, Peter has not read 400 pages of the book.
Now, let's estimate how many days it will take Peter to finish the book if he reads about 8 pages per day.
We know that Peter has 400 pages left to read, and he can read 8 pages per day.
To find the number of days it will take, we can divide the total number of pages by the number of pages Peter reads per day:
400 pages / 8 pages per day = 50 days
Therefore, it will take Peter approximately 50 days to finish the book if he reads about 8 pages per day.
I hope this helps clarify the problem for you! Let me know if you have any further questions.