Carla needs to complete her science homework. She has 20 pages to read and 14 questions to answer. If it takes Carla 10 minutes to read 4 pages, how many minutes will it take her to read the full assignment?

a. 35 minutes
b. 9 minutes
c. 50 minutes
d. 85 minutes

1 answer

To find out how long it will take Carla to read the full assignment, we first determine how long it takes her to read 1 page. Since it takes her 10 minutes to read 4 pages, we can calculate the time per page:

\[ \text{Time per page} = \frac{10 \text{ minutes}}{4 \text{ pages}} = 2.5 \text{ minutes per page} \]

Now we can find out how long it will take her to read 20 pages:

\[ \text{Total time for 20 pages} = 20 \text{ pages} \times 2.5 \text{ minutes per page} = 50 \text{ minutes} \]

Therefore, it will take Carla 50 minutes to read the full assignment.

The answer is c. 50 minutes.