Tom reads at an average rate of 30 pages per hour, while Jan reads at an average rate of 38 pages per hour. If Tom starts reading a novel at 4:30, and Jan begins reading an identical copy of the same book at 5:18, at what time will they be reading the same page?  Select:
A) 7 : 48	B) 8 : 18	C) 8 : 48	D) 9 : 18	E) 9 : 48

Rationale: "since tom reads an average of 1 page every 2 minutes , tom will read 24 pages in the first 48 minutes . jan can catch tom at a rate of 8 pages per hour , so it will take 3 hours to catch tom . the answer is b ."
Answer: B