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valina
13 days ago
6

Monica reads 7 1/2 pages of a mystery book in 9 minutes. What is her average rate in pages per minute

Mathematics
2 answers:
PIT_PIT [3.9K]13 days ago
8 0

Start by dividing 7 1/2 pages by 9 minutes.

Rewrite 7 1/2 as the improper fraction 15/2, then divide by 9.

Perform multiplication by the reciprocal: (15/2) × (1/9).

Reduce the fraction by factoring out common terms: divide numerator 15 and denominator 9 by 3.

This simplifies to (5/2) × (1/3).

The result is 5/6.

Therefore, Monica reads 5/6 of a page per minute on average.

PIT_PIT [3.9K]13 days ago
4 0

The answer is found by dividing the total pages by the total time in minutes.

Calculating 7.5 divided by 9 equals approximately 0.8333, so Monica reads around 0.83 pages each minute on average.

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