SOLUTION: asif read 3/5 pages of book and 4/5 of the remaining pages .if he has still to read 28 pages,find the number of pages in the book.

Question 201516: asif read 3/5 pages of book and 4/5 of the remaining pages .if he has still to read 28 pages,find the number of pages in the book.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = number of pages in the book
given:
Asif read pages
There were pages left,
and he read more
The total pages he read was:

If there were 28 pages left, I can write:

Multiply both sides by

There were 350 pages in the book
check:

OK

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