2021 April MIMC 10 Problems/Problem 2
Okestima is reading a page book. He reads a page every
minutes, and he pauses
minutes when he reaches the end of page 90 to take a break. He does not read at all during the break. After, he comes back with food and this slows down his reading speed. He reads one page in
minutes. If he starts to read at
, when does he finish the book?
Solution
To begin, we can start by find the amount of time Okestima takes to read pages.
gives us
minutes. After he comes back from break, he reads every page in two minutes.
minutes. Add the additional
minutes from break, he would finish the book at
.