Given:
I have walked 20% of the way to school.
I have 1200 metres more to walk than when I have 20% of the walk remaining.
To find:
The distance from home to school.
Solution:
Let x be the distance from home to school.
I have already walked 20% of the way to school and i have 1200 metres more to walk than when I have 20% of the walk remaining.
It means 1200 is of the total distance from home to school.
Therefore, the distance from home to school is 2000 metres.
