Xiaofang read a story book for a few days, and the ratio of the number of pages read to the number of unread pages is 3:5. Then, she read 27 pages. You can set the number of pages read as x the number of unread pages as 5x/3, so there is: x + 27 = 5x/3 The solution is x = 18 Therefore, Xiaofang had already read 18 pages, and there were 5 × 18/3 = 30 pages. She then read another 27 pages, so she had read 18 + 27 = 45 pages and still had 30 unread pages.