If Josephine reads b books per week and each book has, on average, 100

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If Josephine reads b books per week and each book has, on average, 100,000 words, which best approximates the number of words Josephine reads per day?

(A)  100,000b

(B)  \frac{100,000b}{7}

(C)  \frac{700,000b}{b}

(D)  \frac{7b}{100,000}

(E)  \frac{100,000b}{7 	imes 24}

chetan2u · Answer

b books per week and each book has, on average, 100,000 words MEANS 100,000 words per week.
Thus  \frac{100,000b}{7}  per day

Kinshook · Answer

Asked: If Josephine reads b books per week and each book has, on average, 100,000 words, which best approximates the number of words Josephine reads per day?

Number of words read by Josephine in a week = b * 100,000 words
Number of words read by Josephine in a day = \frac{b * 100,000}{7} = \frac{100,000b}{7}  words

IMO B

shashankism · Answer

Josephine reads b books per week.
Josephine reads b*100000 words per week.

So per day, Josephine reads 100000b/7 words per day.

Abhishek009 · Answer

Plug in some value for b and check, say b = 7

So, per day he reads 7/7 = 1 book...

Now, each book contains 100,000 words , so he reads 100,000 words / day

Now, plug in the value and check

(A) 700,000 
(B) 100,000 
(C) 700,000
(D)  \frac{49}{100,000} 
(E)  \frac{700,000}{7 	imes 24}

Hence, Answer must be (B)

ScottTargetTestPrep · Answer

Since Josephine reads 100,000b words a week, on average she reads 100,000b/7 words per day.

Answer: B

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