SOLUTION: Jessie and Mark are planning to paint a house together. Jessie thinks that if he works alone, it would take him 5 hours more than the time Mark takes to paint the entire house. Wor

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Question 1087987: Jessie and Mark are planning to paint a house together. Jessie thinks that if he works alone, it would take him 5 hours more than the time Mark takes to paint the entire house. Working together, they can complete the job in 6 hours.
QUESTION: If they work together, what equation would repesent the amount of work they can finish in 1 hour?
Found 2 solutions by jorel1380, MathTherapy:
Answer by jorel1380(3719)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let n be the amount of time it takes Mark to finish the house. Then Jessie would be n+5. So:
1/n + 1/n+5=1/6
6n+30+6n=nē+5n
nē-7n-30=0
(n-10)(n+3)=0
n=10 or -3
It would take Mark 10 hours to finish the house alone, and Jessie would take 15
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Answer by MathTherapy(10551)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Jessie and Mark are planning to paint a house together. Jessie thinks that if he works alone, it would take him 5 hours more than the time Mark takes to paint the entire house. Working together, they can complete the job in 6 hours.
QUESTION: If they work together, what equation would repesent the amount of work they can finish in 1 hour?
Why are you posting this again? I already answered this.

Why don't you check your previous post: Rate-of-work-word-problems/1087826? 

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