¶ 2006 AMC8 Problem 14
Problem:
The students in Mrs. Reed's English class are reading the same -page novel. Three friends, Alice, Bob and Chandra, are in the class. Alice reads a page in seconds, Bob reads a page in seconds and Chandra reads a page in seconds.
If Bob and Chandra both read the whole book, Bob will spend how many more seconds reading than Chandra?
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Solution:
Bob takes more seconds per page than Chandra. So the difference in their total reading times is seconds. Bob will spend more seconds reading than Chandra.
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