SOLUTION: If A and B can paint the fence of a park in 8 days, B and C can paint the fence in 12 days and C and A can paint the fence in 6 days. In how many days will each one of them paint t
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Question 1063809: If A and B can paint the fence of a park in 8 days, B and C can paint the fence in 12 days and C and A can paint the fence in 6 days. In how many days will each one of them paint the fence?
Answer by ikleyn(52781) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Similar problem was solved in the lesson
- Joint-work problems for 3 participants, Problem 2
in this site. Consider it as a sample and solve your problem by the same way.
There is a bunch of lessons on joint-work problems with detailed explanations in this site:
- Using Fractions to solve word problems on joint work
- Solving more complicated word problems on joint work
- Using quadratic equations to solve word problems on joint work
- Solving rate of work problem by reducing to a system of linear equations
- Selected joint-work word problems from the archive
- Joint-work problems for 3 participants
- OVERVIEW of lessons on rate-of-work problems
Read them and get be trained in solving joint-work problems.
Also, you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I in this site
- ALGEBRA-I - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.
The referred lessons are the part of this textbook under the topic "Rate of work and joint work problems" of the section "Word problems".
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