Mr. A's favorite book is 182 pages less than three times Mr.M's favorite book. If both books have the same number of pages, how many pages are in Mr.A's favorite book?

1 Answer
Archish R.
Dec 5, 2017

91 pages

Explanation:

Let a be the number of pages in Mr. A's book
Let m be the number of pages in Mr. M's book

a=ma=m
a=3*m-182a=3⋅m−182

=>a=3a-182⇒a=3a−182

=>2a=182⇒2a=182

=>a=91⇒a=91

Related questions
Impact of this question
1175 views around the world
You can reuse this answer
Creative Commons License