Question

By October 19th, Gordon had read 35 pages. Starting on October 20th, he decides to read the same number of pages each day until he finished the book on October 30th. Write and solve and equation to represent the situation. Let p represent the number of pages read per day. How many pages does Gordon read per day?

Answer 1

Gordon read a total of 35 pages, so if there is p pages read per day and 10 days you'd have something that looks like this: 35 = 10p.