Problema Solution

Two pages that are back to back in a book have 203 as the sum of their page numbers. What are the page numbers?

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Let x and x+1 be the two page numbers. Then we have: 

x + (x+1) = 203

x + x + 1 = 203

2x = 203 - 1 

Solve the above for x. Then the other page number is x+1.

The pages that are back to back would be consecutive. So x and x+1. They add up to 203. 


Simplify.

2x=202

x=101

Page numbers would be 101 and 102. Hope this helped!