Tom reads at an average rate of 30 pages per hour, while Jan reads at an average rate of 39 pages ...
Tom reads at an average rate of 30 pages per hour, while Jan reads at an average rate of 39 pages per hour. If Tom starts reading a novel at 4:30, and Jan begins reading an identical copy of the same book at 5:06, at what time will they be reading the same page?
Answer/Solution
7:06
Steps/Work
Since Tom reads an average of 1 page every 2 minutes, Tom will read 18 pages in the first 36 minutes. Jan can catch Tom at a rate of 9 pages per hour, so it will take 2 hours to catch Tom.
The answer is C.
The answer is C.