## anonymous one year ago PLEASE HELP! I will medal and fan! I DONT WANT AN ANSWER, I WANT HELP!! Courtney reads around 110 words per minute. She procrastinated and now has less than a week to finish her reading assignment. If the book she needs to finish has another 820 pages left and each page has around 350 words, how many hours should she set aside to complete her assignment? I NEED TO SHOW MY WORK

1. anonymous

Look at this, if 1 page has 350 words, 820 pages means you multiply 820 by 350, then you will get the total number of words in 820 pages.

2. anonymous

Get it?

3. anonymous

ok.. Thats only part of it, though? 287000 is the answer

4. anonymous

Yep, thats the total number of words. Next I like to use some Physics knowledge in it, its simple just a formula. $Speed=\frac{distance}{time}$ We know the speed = 100words/min Distance(interpreted as) = 287000words Therefore you get $110=\frac{287000}{time}$

5. anonymous

time= a week

6. anonymous

$time=\frac{287000}{110}$ =2609minutes

7. anonymous

but, it asks for hours.. so 168 hours

8. anonymous

2609minutes divided by 60 to get the hours

9. anonymous

43.48333333333

10. anonymous

Yup

11. anonymous

ok.. what now?

12. anonymous

Well she needs about 43-44 hours to complete her assignment.

13. anonymous

ok, so that is the answer?

14. anonymous

Yup

15. anonymous

thanks!