Question

You and your brother are reading the same novel. You want to get ahead of him in the book, so you decide to read 30 minutes longer than your brother reads. There is a relationship between the number of minutes your brother reads, x, and the number of minutes you read, y. Write an equation for the number of minutes you read, y, when your brother reads x number of minutes.

Answer 1

Answer: Hence, our required equation is

$y=30+x$

Explanation:

Since we have given that

Let x be the number of minutes your brother reads .

Let y be the number of minutes you reads.

According to question,

we have also given that you decide to read 30 minutes longer than your brother so, our required equation becomes

$y-x=30\\\\y=30+x$

So, the above equation shows the relation between you and your brother read .

Hence, our required equation is

$y=30+x$

Answer 2

Answer:

Equation= y=x+30  

You Will read for 45 minutes