Question

Problems $14, 15,$ and $16$ involve Mrs. Reed’s English assignment.

A Novel Assignment

The students in Mrs. Reed’s English class are reading the same $760$ -page novel. Three friends, Alice, Bob and Chandra, are in the class. Alice reads a page in $20$ seconds, Bob reads a page in $45$ seconds and Chandra reads a page in $30$ seconds.

If Bob and Chandra both read the whole book, Bob will spend how many more seconds reading than Chandra?

$7,600$

$11,400$

$12,500$

$15,200$

$22,800$

Solution:

Bob will take $760 \cdot 45$ seconds to read the book, and Chandra will take $760 \cdot 30$ seconds.

The difference between the time they spent reading is $760 \cdot 45 - 760 \cdot 30$ $= 760(45 - 30)$ $= 760 \cdot 15$ $= 11,400$ seconds.

Thus, B is the correct answer.

2006 AMC 8 Problem 14

Solution:

Problem 14 in Other Years