Essentially, this method is comparing apples and oranges. It's important to remember the units of measurement. On the right-hand side of the equation, you have 300 (pages). On the left-hand side, there's the term 2x+3 (hours). I think i got tripped up on this one... I took 2x + 3 = 300 and solved f...

Thanks, here´s already the next question, actually pretty easy. Brian read 108 pages of a novel on tuesday. On wednesday he read the remaining 192 pages, reading at the same average rate he read on tuesday. if his reading on wednesday took 3 hours longer than his reading on tuesday, what is his ave...

Employee Task

Just had some problems with solving the following task, maybe you can give me an approach!
In 1955, 300 of a company´s 750 employees were women, In 1987, the company had 900 employees, 430 oh whom were women. The number of female employees increased by what percent from 1955 to 1987?
Thanks