SOLUTION: Radha and medha together takes 10 hours to complete a work. Radha takes 15 hours to complete the same job. How much time will medha take to complete the work?

Question 1062498: Radha and medha together takes 10 hours to complete a work. Radha takes 15 hours to complete the same job. How much time will medha take to complete the work?
Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, ikleyn:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39628)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Work rate is .

, the time m in hours for Medha to do one job alone.
Answer by ikleyn(52866)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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    - Using Fractions to solve word problems on joint work,
    - Solving more complicated word problems on joint work,
    - Selected joint-work word problems from the archive
in this site.

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