How many days will it take Carlos to read a book with 156 pages, if Carlos is trying to read 12 pages of his book a night?

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How many days will it take Carlos to read a book with 156 pages, if Carlos is trying to read 12 pages of his book a night?

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Answer 1 · 2018-05-23T11:59:14

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Explanation:

We can write the equation to solve this problem as:

$d = g/p$

Where:
- $d$ is the number of days it will take to read the book, what we are solving for in this problem.
- $g$ is the number of pages in the book: $156" pages"$ for this problem.
- $p$ is the number of pages read per day: $(12"pages")/"day"$ for this problem.

Substituting and calculating $d$ gives:

$d = (156" pages")/((12"pages")/"day")$

$d = (156" pages"" day")/(12"pages")$

$d = (156color(red)(cancel(color(black)(" pages")))" day")/(12color(red)(cancel(color(black)("pages"))))$

$d = (156" day")/12$

$d = 13" days"$

It should take Carlos 13 days to read the book.

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