SOLUTION: Sara is way behind in her English homework. She has 207 pages to read in her book and she is supposed to finish by Monday. She reads pretty fast, but not very fast. She can read ab

Question 1105571: Sara is way behind in her English homework. She has 207 pages to read in her book and she is supposed to finish by Monday. She reads pretty fast, but not very fast. She can read about 1.2 pages ped minute. Construct a linear equation modeling how many pages she has left to read over time.
Please could you help. Thanks.
Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
She has 207-1.2x pages left to read, where x is the number of minutes.
y=-1.2x+207.

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