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  • 16-02-2017
  • Mathematics
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How do you get this answer ?



You have already read 117 pages of a book. You are one third of the way through the book. Write and solve an equation to find the number of pages in the book.

I know the answer is 1/3b
but how

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soniadevri soniadevri
  • 17-02-2017
if you 
Let x to be the total number of pages in a book,

then 1/3x = 117

because 117 = 1/3 of a book
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