X Andre and Elena are reading the same book over the
summer. Andre says he has read of the book.
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Elena says she has read 20 more pages than Andre. If
Elena is on page 55, how many pages are in the book?
Lin has drawn a diagram to solve this question.
Find her error. Then explain her mistake. Use the
sketch tools to help.

the book should have a total of 175 pages

Explanation:

Let the total number of pages in the book = X

Andre = 1/5 of X

Elena = 55 pages

Elena = 1/5 of x + 20 pages

55 pages = (1/5)x + 20 pages

55 - 20 = (1/5)x

35 = (1/5)x

x = 35 / (1/5)

x = 175

So the book has a total of 175 pages

Not 100% sure what the diagram means, but

Based on Lin's diagram, it seems like the book has 275 pages, which is not true.

i believe that's the correct answer

word count 168

serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.