Question

Nora and Lila are reading the same novel for book club. Nora is on page 128 and plans to read 8 pages per day until the next club meeting. Lila is on page 100 and plans to read 12 pages per day until the next club meeting.

After how many days of reading will Nora and Lila be on the same page of the book? What page will they be on

Answer 1

use a function. Where p is pages per day.
For Nora, her function would look like d = 8p + 128
Make an equation for Lila and see when they equal each other.
Hint: you can use substitution because both Nora and Lila have a function equal to d