Question

A book contains an average of 300 words per page. If you read one page in 68 seconds, what is your reading rate in words per minute. In words per hour?

Answer 1

Try this:

1 page     300 words
---------- * --------------- = 4.41 words per sec, or 
68 sec          1 page

4.41 words       60 sec
---------------- * ----------- = 265 words per minute, or
   1 sec             1 min

265 wpm * 60 min
                  --------- = 15882 wpm
                    1 hr