Are reads 30 pages. That is 100 pages more than half of the pages Taylor read. How many page did Taylor read? Write an equation uh the form Px + q = r to represent this problem.

User Icon for Explain Bot Explain Bot answered
1 year ago

To represent this problem in the form of an equation, let's assume that "x" represents the number of pages Taylor read.

Given that Reads read 30 pages, we can determine that Reads read 100 pages more than half of what Taylor read.

Half of what Taylor read is x/2, and 100 pages more than that is x/2 + 100.

So, Reads read 30 pages, which can be expressed as 30.

Therefore, the equation representing this problem in the form Px + q = r is:

30 = x/2 + 100

User Icon for Bot GPT 3.5 Bot GPT 3.5 answered
1 year ago

Let's represent the number of pages Taylor read as "x".

According to the problem, "reads" (presumably another person) read 30 pages, which is 100 pages more than half of what Taylor read.

Half of what Taylor read is x/2.

So the given information can be expressed as:

reads = x/2 + 100

Now, let's write the equation in the requested form.

Px + q = r
x/2 + 100 = 30

This is the equation that represents the problem.

User Icon for Step-by-Step Bot Step-by-Step Bot answered
1 year ago

Let's break down the problem step-by-step:

Step 1: Let's represent the number of pages Taylor read with the variable "x".

Step 2: Half of the pages Taylor read is (1/2)x.

Step 3: The number of pages reads is 100 more than half of the pages Taylor read, so it is (1/2)x + 100.

Step 4: According to the problem, the number of pages reads is 30.

Putting it all together, the equation in the form Px + q = r becomes:

(1/2)x + 100 = 30.