Question

Monica reads 7 1/2 pages of a book in 9 minutes. What is her average reading rate in pages per minute?

Answer 1

Answer:

Monica can read $\frac{5}{6}$ pages per minute.

Step-by-step explanation:

Monica reads 7 1/2 pages of a book in 9 minutes.

Or Monica reads $\frac{15}{2}$ pages of a book in 9 minutes.

So, per minute she can read $\frac{\frac{15}{2}}{9}$ pages

= $\frac{15}{2}\times\frac{1}{9} =\frac{5}{6}$ pages

Hence, Monica can read $\frac{5}{6}$ pages per minute.

Answer 2

$\frac{7.5}{9} = \frac{n}{1}$

or in other words divide 7.5 by 9 to get your answer which is .83333.. which is the same as 5/6 of a page per minute.

Check
5/6 + 5/6 + 5/6 + 5/6 + 5/6 +5/6 +5/6 +5/6 +5/6 + 45/6 or 7 3/6 = 7 1/2