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Emma has handwritten an essay, and she needs to type it. She types at a speed of 50 words per minute, and she has already completed typing 3 pages of her 10-page essay. If each page contains 250 words, how many more minutes does she need to type to complete her essay?

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Yeah Do you get Seven equals point to t and
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t equals thirty five so it's only thirty five more
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minutes of typing left See if she hadn't already typed
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up three pages while the essay would have taken fifty
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minutes Yeah way to think ahead emma They're sorry for

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all those disks earlier and note that in the very
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beginning we kind of mumbled through things and just got
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to the right answer Without all the equations in there
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you ought to do both and that's why we give
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you these equations here So you have a format for
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when the questions get really complicated You could at least
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organize your thoughts and think about things and the conversion
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element here is really important They'll ask you to do
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that a lot time gets converted pages per minute and
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then they'll ask you things in an hour or something
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The people who write these tests are evil All their
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last name Yeah you're right It's a fader
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