The following question type require students to be able to understand "fraction of remaining".
2 fractions are given to represent 2 items
and 2 numbers are given to represent one of the items and the final amount left.
Such questions appear in P5 and P6 exams and will be in Paper 2.
Calculator usage is allowed.
Joe started reading a novel.
He read 2/5 of the novel on Monday.
He read another 58 pages of the novel on Tuesday.
After reading 1/4 of the remaining novel on Wednesday,
he finished reading the last 96 pages of the novel on Thursday.
How many pages were there in this novel?
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