Aparticular algebra text has a total of 1382 pages which is broken into two parts. the second part of the book has 64 more pages than the first part. how many pages are in each part of the book? show work.

You can say that the first part of the book has (x) number of pages.  That would mean that the second part has (x+64) pages.  To find the actual number of pages, set up an equation and solve for (x).

Equation                   Next step
x + (x+64) = 1382      simplify
2x + 64 =1382           subtract 64 from each side of the = sign
2x = 1318                  divide both sides by 2
x = 659 pages in the first part
x + 64 = pages in the second part
659 + 64 = 723 pages in the second part

No because if you do the higher number minus the lower number you will get a positive. if you do it the other way around you will get a negative number

Iam not sure , but probably 750 or 7.5