Question

You and your brother are reading the same novel. You want to get ahead of him in the book, so you decide to read 30 minutes longer than your brother reads. Write an equation for the number of minutes you read, y, when your brother reads x number of minutes. How many minutes will you read if your brother reads for 15minutes?

Answer 1

the equation would be y = 30 + x and if your brother will read for 15 minutes then you'll read for 45 minutes i believe.