riley read five times as many pages as jessica in the reading contest.If they read a total of 2,838 pages,how many pages did riley read?
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let the no. of pages pages Jessica read be X.
no. of pages Riley read =5×X
=5X
total no. of pages read by both of them =2838
X+5X =2838
6X =2838
X=2838÷6
=473(no. of pages read by Jessica)
no. of pages read by Riley=5X
=5×473
= 2365
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