A textbook has 25 more than six times the number of pages as a workbook. Combined, they have 305 pages. Find the number of oages in each

Question

Write the number of pages in the workbook and the number of pages in the textbook in terms of a variable. Translate the relationships given in the problem into an equation that can be solved for the variable

Answer 1

Let the work book has x pages, then the text book has 6x+25 pages.

 

x+6x+25 =305

7x=280

x=40

6x+25 =6*40+25 = 265

 

so work book has 40 pages and text book has 265 pages.