Josh, Nash and Gerald are avid readers. They have each bought the same storybook a month ago and have been reading it since. The total number of pages that they have read up till now is 2724. Josh has read twice as many pages as Nash. Nash has read 148 pages more than Gerald. How many pages has Gerald read?
+1223 We can write everything in terms of x, the number of pages Gerald has reawd.
Gerald = x
Nash = x + 148
Josh = 2(x + 148)
x + (x + 148) + 2(x + 148) = 2724
x + x + 148 + 2x + 296 = 2724
4x + 444 = 2724
4x = 2280
x = 570
Gerald has read 570 pages.
