Julio and Jake start their reading assignments the same day. Jake is reading a 168-page book at a rate of 24 pages per day. Julio's book is 180 pages long and his reading rate is 11 times Jake's rate. After 5 days, who will have more pages left to read?

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Answer 1 · 2016-10-23T14:03:41

Jake

PLju = Pages Left for Julio
PPDju = Pages Per Day for Julio = #24 xx 11 = 264#

PLjk = Pages Left for Jake
PPDjk = Pages Per Day for Jake = 24

For Jake:
PLjk #= 168 - (5xx24) = 48#

ForJulio:
PLju #= 180 - (5xx264) = 0 #

(He can't read more than the 180 pages so Julio has no pages left to read of his 180 page book, he finished it the first day.)