Eric read 150 pages in one hour. What is Eric's reading rate in pages per minute?

1 Answer
Mar 2, 2018

2.52.5 pages per minute.

Explanation:

First of all you know that he read color(green)(150)150 pages in color(red)(1 hour)1hour.
color(red)(1 hour)1hour is the same as color(blue)(60 min).
You are going to take the number of pages read (color(green)(150))and divide it by how many minutes it took him to read the pages, which is color(blue)(60min)
color(purple)(150/60)color(purple)(=2.5)
Eric read 2.5 pages in 1 minute.

To check your answer, you can multiply 2.5 by 60
color(brown)(2.5*60)color(brown)(=150)

Hope this helps :)