Expert: Lynn Houston - 6/29/2010

Question
Daniel Read 80 pages of a western novel in 120 minutes. The novel has an average of 250 words per page.

   a. About how many total words does the 80 pages contain?
   B. What is Daniel's reading rate in words per minute?
   c. At this rate, how long would it take Daniel to read a novel that contains 240,000 words?

Answer
a. About how many total words does the 80 pages contain? A: 80 x 250
  B. What is Daniel's reading rate in words per minute?  A: (80 x 250)/120
  c. At this rate, how long would it take Daniel to read a novel that contains 240,000 words?
A: 240000 / ((80 x 250)/120)

as you can see, each question builds on the answer from the previous one.  I'll let you do the actual computations.