Xiao Ming read a 480-page storybook and read page A every day for 12 days. How many pages are left?When Xiao Ming read page A of the storybook every day for 12 days, he had read a total of 12 × page A.
Therefore, when Xiaoming reads a 480-page storybook, he still has 480 - 12 × a pages left.
To calculate the remaining pages, he needed to know how many pages Xiao Ming read in the end and how many pages he read every day. If we assume that the last page that Xiao Ming read was 480 pages and he reads page a every day, then we can write the following equation:
480 - 12 × a = Remaining pages
By solving this equation, we can get:
Remaining pages = 480 - 12 × a = 480 - 12a
Therefore, after reading page A for 12 days, Xiao Ming still had 480 - 12A pages left.