Question

PLEASE HELP IVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR 76 HOURS I WILL MARK BRAINIEST PLEASE HELP I AM SO DESPERATE:A student is doing a reading assignment. After 41 minutes of reading, she skims the pages ahead and estimates that she still has 53% of the reading to do. According to the girl's estimate, how long is the total reading assignment? Round to the nearest minute.

Answer 1

Answer:

87 mins

Step-by-step explanation:

The percentage of pages she read = 100-53= 47%

47%------------41 mins

53% ------------- x

x= (41×53)/47

x= 46.23 mins

nearest minute = 46 mins

Total reading assignments is 41+46= 87 mins

Answer 2

Answer:

87 minutes.

Step-by-step explanation:

to get the percentage of the read part, do 100% - 53% = 47%

41min = 47%

  ?        = 100%

cross multiply;

41 × 100 ÷ 47 = 87.2340...

round off to get 87 min