SOLUTION: Naoya read a book cover to cover in a single session at rate of 55 pages per hour. after reading for 4 hours, he had 330 pages left to read a. How long is the book? b. How long d

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Question 1041188: Naoya read a book cover to cover in a single session at rate of 55 pages per hour. after reading for 4 hours, he had 330 pages left to read
a. How long is the book?
b. How long did it take naoya to read the book?

Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, ikleyn:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source):
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R*T=P uniform rates, pages and hours?

SPEED TIME PAGES WHOLE BOOK r t 55 SOME OF BOOK r 4 p-330 Reading rate, r, would be unchanged. WHOLE BOOK(rate only) 55 t 55 SOME OF BOOK 55 4 p-330

for how many pages she did read of the second part of the description.

------------The book is/was 550 pages.

The WHOLE book was read in t time of hours and WAS 550 pages in actual length.

-------Ten hours to read the whole book.

Answer by ikleyn(52798) (Show Source):
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Naoya read a book cover to cover in a single session at rate of 55 pages per hour. after reading for 4 hours, he had 330 pages left to read
a. How long is the book?
b. How long did it take naoya to read the book?
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a. How long is the book? 4 hours * 55 + 330 pages = 220 pages + 330 pages = 550 pages. b. How long did it take naoya to read the book? = 10 hours.

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