SOLUTION: A and B can build a wall in 15 and 20 hrs resp. if they worked together they use 180 bricks less per hours and build the wall in 12 hrs . find how many bricks was there in the

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Question 1043245: A and B can build a wall in 15 and 20 hrs resp.
if
they worked together they use 180 bricks less
per hours and build
the wall in 12 hrs . find how many bricks was
there in the wall

Found 4 solutions by Edwin McCravy, ikleyn, govindkingh1@gmail.com, josgarithmetic:
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20054)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A and B can build a wall in 15 and 20 hrs resp.
Suppose there are N bricks in the wall.

A can lay N bricks in 15 hours, so A's brick-laying rate is 
N bricks per 15 hours or N/15 bricks per hour.

B can lay N bricks in 20 hours, so B's brick-laying rate is 
N bricks per 20 hours or N/20 bricks per hour.

if they worked together they use 180 bricks less
per hour
Whoa!  180 bricks less per hour than what? 180 bricks less per
hour than A's rate in bricks per hour? -- or 180 bricks less per hour
than B's rate in bricks per hour?  We can't continue until we know 
what to subtract 180 from.  And you didn't tell us.  

I'll try to go on anyway without that and see what happens:

Their combined brick-laying rate is (N/15 + N/20) bricks per
hour.   Getting an LCD of 60, their combined brick-laying rate works 
out to be (7N/60) bricks per hour. 

and build the wall in 12 hrs .
That says their combined brick-laying rate is N bricks laid in
12 hours or N/12 bricks per hour.

So we set those equal:

7N/60 = N/12

Cross multiplying

84N = 60N

Dividing both sides by N

84 = 60

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Answer by ikleyn(52776)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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This formulation is wrong and doesn't make sense.


Answer by govindkingh1@gmail.com(1)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
this question is correct!!


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This notice is from the tutor "ikleyn" and is addressed to "govindkingh1@gmail.com"

Could you please re-submit the problem one more time to the forum ?

I have an idea how to solve it (and how to interpret the condition in a way it makes sense).



Answer by josgarithmetic(39616)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
3600 bricks in one wall.


Predicted wall building rate would be sum of rates of A and B, , being time hours for 1 wall.

Actual rate is given in description as wall per hour.

Difference in number of bricks PER HOUR given as 180.
If b is number of bricks in 1 wall, then


, how many bricks in one wall.

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