SOLUTION: There are 3 people who work fulltime and are to work together on a project, but their total time on the project is to be equivalent to that of only one person working full-time. I

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Question 1103021: There are 3 people who work fulltime and are to work together on a project, but their total time on the project is to be equivalent to that of only one person working full-time. If one of the people is budgeted for 1/2 of his time to the project and second person for 1/3 of her time, what part of the third worker's time should be budgeted to this project?
Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, richwmiller:
Answer by ikleyn(52754)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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There are 3 people who work fulltime and are to work together on a project, but their total time on the project is to be equivalent
to that of only one person working full-time. If one of the people is budgeted for 1/2 of his time to the project and
second person for 1/3 of her time, what part of the third worker's time should be budgeted to this project?
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It is the same as to ask:


    How much is  ?



And the answer is 


     =  = .


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In your post you use the words "his" and "her" as if they relate to the same person.

I did not understand this moment.


Answer by richwmiller(17219)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If I am reading the problem correctly the first person (male) is referred to as "ONE of the people is budgeted for 1/2 of HIS time to the project" and the SECOND person (female) is referred to as "second person for 1/3 of HER time."

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