Question

you have already read 117 pages of a book.you are one third of the way through the book. write and solve a equation to find the number of pages in the book. Please show work

Answer 1

if \[\frac{1}{3}\] is \[117\]pages what about \[\frac{2}{3}\] just cross-multiply

Answer 2

Or alternatively let
\[x\]
be the total number of pages, then
\[\frac13x=117\]
solve for
\[x\]