Jessica can text 75 words per minute, while Maurice can text 10 words per minute. An abridged English translation of Tolstoy’s War and Peace contains 410,400 words. Working together, how many days will it take Jessica and Maurice to text the entire abridged translation of War and Peace? Options
A) 0.3 B) 1.3 C) 3.5 D) 9 E) 11.3
Since the answer choices are reasonably spaced out, we can approximate and save time   3.5ombined words per day = 85*60*24 which should be something close to 122400 (i.e 100*25*60)   410400/122400 will be closest to only 3.5,   So, Answer should be 3.5.
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Jessica can text 75 words per minute, while Maurice can text 10 words per minute. An abridged English translation of Tolstoy’s War and Peace contains 410,400 words. Working together, how many days will it take Jessica and Maurice to text the entire abridged translation of War and Peace?