SOLUTION: Two printers working together can finish a piece of work in 6 days. Working alone, one of the printers can do the same work in 9 days. How long would it take the other printer to c

Question 448983: Two printers working together can finish a piece of work in 6 days. Working alone, one of the printers can do the same work in 9 days. How long would it take the other printer to complete the work?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Add their rates of working to get their rate
working together.
Let = time it takes the other printer
to do a job

Multiply both sides by

It takes the other printer 18 days
to do the work by himself
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