SOLUTION: a bricklayer can build a brick wall in 2 days. His apprentice needs 3 days to build the same wall. How long would it take them to build the wall if they work together?

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Question 1117456: a bricklayer can build a brick wall in 2 days. His apprentice needs 3 days to build the same wall. How long would it take them to build the wall if they work together?
Answer by ikleyn(52781)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The master makes    of the job per day.


The apprentice makes    of the job per day.


Working together, they make   =  =  of the job per day.


Hence, it will take them   of the day =  of the day to complete the job working together.

Solved.

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It is a typical and standard joint work problem.

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    - Solving more complicated word problems on joint work
    - Selected joint-work word problems from the archive


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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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