Miriam read a book with an unknown number of pages. The first week, she read five less than 1/3 of the pages. The second week, s
he read 171 more pages and finished the book. Write an equation that represents the total number of pages in the book.
1 answer:
((1/3)x - 5) + 171 = x
combine like terms...move the x’s to one side...
166 = (2/3)x
get x by itself...
166 (3/2) = x
249 = x
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