SOLUTION: If violet were painting her living room alone, it would take 4 hours. Her sister Jackie could do the job in 5 hours. How long would it take them working together?
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Question 1075319: If violet were painting her living room alone, it would take 4 hours. Her sister Jackie could do the job in 5 hours. How long would it take them working together?
Answer by ikleyn(52909) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Read the lesson
- Using Fractions to solve word problems on joint work
in this site.
You will find a lot of solved joint work problems similar to yours.
Also, you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I in this site
- ALGEBRA-I - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.
The referred lesson is the part of this textbook under the topic "Rate of work and joint work problems" of the section "Word problems".
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