Question

A student was conducting a study to determine how many pages he would need for the book he is writing. So,he found that the following number of words fit on each type of the following papers using an 11 point font. The student looks up the word count on his favorite book, if the book has pages that are 5.5 in.x 6.5 in. and 78,822 words how many pages is the book?

Answer 1

Since the paper size is 5.5in x 6.5in, according to the table, each page has 300 words on average. Furthermore, we know that there are 78822 words in the book, so

$\frac{78822\text{words}}{300words}=\frac{13137}{50}=262.74$

Thus, the book has 262.74 pages, approximately 263 pages