Question

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Courtney reads around 110 words per minute. She procrastinated and now has less than a week to finish her reading assignment. If the book she needs to finish has another 820 pages left and each page has around 350 words, how many hours should she set aside to complete her assignment? I NEED TO SHOW MY WORK

Answer 1

Look at this, if 1 page has 350 words, 820 pages means you multiply 820 by 350, then you will get the total number of words in 820 pages.

Answer 2

Get it?

Answer 3

ok.. Thats only part of it, though? 287000 is the answer

Answer 4

Yep, thats the total number of words. Next I like to use some Physics knowledge in it, its simple just a formula.
\[Speed=\frac{distance}{time}\]
We know the speed = 100words/min
Distance(interpreted as) = 287000words
Therefore you get
\[110=\frac{287000}{time}\]

Answer 5

time= a week

Answer 6

\[time=\frac{287000}{110}\]
=2609minutes

Answer 7

but, it asks for hours.. so 168 hours

Answer 8

2609minutes divided by 60 to get the hours

Answer 9

43.48333333333

Answer 10

Yup

Answer 11

ok.. what now?

Answer 12

Well she needs about 43-44 hours to complete her assignment.

Answer 13

ok, so that is the answer?

Answer 14

Yup

Answer 15

thanks!