Question

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? Show your work to receive full credit.

Answer 1

820·350=287 000- worlds in the book

110 worlds-1 min
287 000-X min

X=287 000 ·1:110=2609,090 min

1h-60 min
X h-2609,090
X=2609,090·1:60=43,4848333 h≈44 h

So Courtney will read this book a little beat more than one day.