Leilani can read 20 pages in 2 minutes. if she can maintain this page, how many pages can she read i

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    math_celebrity Administrator Staff Member

    Leilani can read 20 pages in 2 minutes. if she can maintain this page, how many pages can she read in an hour?

    We know that 1 hour is 60 minutes.
    Let p be the number of pages Leilani can read in 1 hour (60 minutes)

    The read rate is constant, so we can build a proportion.
    20 pages /2 minutes = p/60

    We can cross multiply:
    Numerator 1 * Denominator 2 = Denominator 1 * Numerator 2

    Solving for Numerator 2 we get:
    Numerator 2 = Numerator 1 * Denominator 2/Denominator 1

    Evaluating and simplifying using your input values we get:
    p = 20 * 60/ 2
    p = 1200/2
    p = 600
     

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