Question

Jimmy is writing a paper for one of his classes. The paper has to be 3,000 words long, and so far he has written 636 words. If he only has 6 more days to write his paper and wants to write the same number of words each day, then how many words must he write per day to finish the paper?

Answer 1

394 a day

Answer 2

okay so he already wrote 636 words right? so that means you would have to subtract 636 from 3,000

Answer 3

2,394?

Answer 4

@marinam please don't give the asker the answer.. help them get to it themselves

Answer 5

2,394?

Answer 6

okay now he wants to DIVIDE the work into 6 days

Answer 7

so that means?

Answer 8

394?

Answer 9

nope we subtracted wrong

Answer 10

399

Answer 11

umm you subtracted the 3000-636 wrong which should've given you 2364

Answer 12

and then divide 2364 by 6

Answer 13

Ohh yeah sorry lol I thought we were subracting something else

Answer 14

subtracting*

Answer 15

no worries small mistakes

Answer 16

The answer is 394 .. 2,364 divided by 6 is 394 .. thank you!! :D

Answer 17

no problem