Question

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.

Answer 1

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.