SOLUTION: Nasir read 60 pages on first day and he read 20% more from first day so he read 1\6 of book so how many nasir read the total pages ?

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Question 1181595: Nasir read 60 pages on first day and he read 20% more from first day so he read 1\6 of book so how many nasir read the total pages ?
Found 4 solutions by mananth, josgarithmetic, MathTherapy, ikleyn:
Answer by mananth(16946) About Me  (Show Source):
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Nasir read 60 pages on first day
and he read 20% more from first day
20% of 60 = 12
So he read 72 pages on day 2
total read = 60+72= 132 pages
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Let the book contain x pages
1/6 * x= 132
x= 132 *6=> 792 pages
Book total pages = 792


so he read 1\6 of book so how many nasir read the total pages ?

Answer by josgarithmetic(39621) About Me  (Show Source):
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and he read 20% more from first day
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That part makes poor sense.

The whole description needs to be written better.


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Nasir read 60 pages of a book on the first day. This was 20% more than the number of pages he read on the second day. Given that he read 1/6 of the book on the second day, find the number of pages in the book he read.
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Day 1, 60 pages
Day 2, x pages
p, total pages in the book

system%2860=1.2x%2Cand%2C1.2x=p%2F6%29

x=60%2F1.50
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1.2%2A50=p%2F6
1.2%2A50%2A6=p
highlight%28p=360%29

Answer by MathTherapy(10555) About Me  (Show Source):
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Nasir read 60 pages on first day and he read 20% more from first day so he read 1\6 of book so how many nasir read the total pages ?
Number of pages read on 1st day: 60

Number of pages read after 1st day: 20%, or .2 more, or 1.2(60) = 72

Since 132 (60 + 72) or 1%2F6 of the pages have been read, and with P being the total number of pages, we get: matrix%282%2C3%2C+132%2C+%22=%22%2C+%281%2F6%29+%2A+P%2C+132%2C+%22=%22%2C+P%2F6%29

If you're asking for the number of pages in the book, then we get: Total number of pages, or highlight_green%28matrix%281%2C5%2C+P%2C+%22=%22%2C+6%28132%29%2C+%22=%22%2C+792%29%29

Answer by ikleyn(52818) About Me  (Show Source):
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In my view, the "problem", as it is worded, printed and presented in the post, has no right to exist;

THEREFORE, there is nothing to discuss here.