Consider a hookworm will travel from one book to other end book as shown in figure 1.

Figure 1

Step1:
From figure 1, write the equation to find hookworm will travel from one end to other end.
(1)
d 2c p

d1 p c

(2)

d2 p c

(3)

Here, p is the width of the pages of one volume, which is 2 inches, c is the width of one
end of the book cover is 1/8 inches, N is the number of volumes in the encyclopedia is 13
number, and d is the total distance that the bookworm travelled.

Step2:
Combine all the Equations (1), (2) and (3) for N volumes
d N 2c p p c p c

2Nc Np p c p c
2Nc Np 2p 2c
2c N 1 p N 2
Substitute 2 inches for p, 1/8 inches for c and 13 for N.
d 2c N 1 p N 2
2 1 8 13 1 2 13 2
25inches