SOLUTION: Person A can paint the neighbors house six times as fast as a person b, the year A and B worked together it took them one days long how long will it take them to paint the house
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Question 1068941: Person A can paint the neighbors house six times as fast as a person b, the year A and B worked together it took them one days long how long will it take them to paint the house
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The problem description and question not very well written, but this follows rule R*T=W to relate rate R, time T, amount of jobs or work W.
Amount of time for the job done, 1 day;
amount of jobs done, 1, for "one house to be painted".
If time for B alone to do the job is x, then rate is .
Rate for A is .
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Solve for x, amount of time for B to do the job alone.
B can paint the house in 7 days.
(x=7)
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