Deirdre joelle are reading the same book Deirdre Read three times as many pages of the book as Jowell together the read 48 pages which equation can be solved to. Find the number of pages Joelle reads

3x + x = 48

12 pages

Step-by-step explanation:

let the number of pages read by Joelle be represented by x

Joelle = x pages

Deirdre = 3x (since she reads 3 times as much pages as Joelle)

3x + x = 48

4x = 48

x = 12 pages

So Joelle reads 12 pages