SOLUTION: Zack and Mindy picked a row of peas together in m minutes. it would have taken Zack n minutes to pick the row of peas by himself. what fraction of the row of peas did Zack pick? w
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Question 446940: Zack and Mindy picked a row of peas together in m minutes. it would have taken Zack n minutes to pick the row of peas by himself. what fraction of the row of peas did Zack pick? what fraction of the row of peas did Mindy pick?
Answer by rwm(914) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
z=zack
y=mindy
z=n
m/n+m/y=1
Zack picked m/n
Mindy picked 1-m/n
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