Question

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?(1 point)
Responses

50 minutes
50 minutes

35 minutes
35 minutes

85 minutes
85 minutes

9 minutes

1 answer

To determine how long it will take Carla to read the entire 20 pages, we first find out how long it takes her to read a single page.

Given that 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 multiply the time per page by the total number of pages she needs to read:

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

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

The correct response is:

50 minutes