chantel read 1/4 of the pages of a book on saturday and 2/3 of the pages on sunday. she read the last 5 pages on monday. how many pages were in the book?

Question

 how many pages were in the book ?

Answer 1

First lets find how much she's read on Saturday and Sunday combined.

 

That is, let's find 1/4 + 2/3.

 

We start by writing these fractions with a common denominator, 12.

 

1/4 = 3/12 and 2/3 = 8/12. So 1/4 + 2/3 = 3/12 + 8/12 = 11/12.

 

So by Monday she has read 11/12 of the book and the remaining 5 pages are the remaining 1/12.

 

If 5 pages is 1/12 of the book, then the whole book would be 12 * 5 pages or 60 pages.

 

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