Later, the teaching assistant in Jacques’s chemistry course gives him some advice. “Based on past experience,” the teaching assistant says,…

Later, the teaching assistant in Jacques’s chemistry course gives him some advice. “Based on past experience,” the teaching assistant says, “working on 35 problems raises a student’s exam score by about the same amount as reading the textbook for 1 hour.” For simplicity, assume students always cover the same number of pages during each hour they spend reading.