SOLUTION: A roofer requires 8 h to shingle a roof. After the roofer and an apprentice work on a roof for 2 h, the roofer moves on to another job. The apprentice requires 16 more hours to fin
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Question 750637: A roofer requires 8 h to shingle a roof. After the roofer and an apprentice work on a roof for 2 h, the roofer moves on to another job. The apprentice requires 16 more hours to finish the job. How long would it take the apprentice, working alone, to do the job
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A roofer requires 8 h to shingle a roof.
After the roofer and an apprentice work on a roof for 2 h, the roofer moves on to another job.
The apprentice requires 16 more hours to finish the job.
How long would it take the apprentice, working alone, to do the job
:
let a = time required by the apprentice to do the job alone
Let the completed job = 1
:
A typical shared work equation
Each will do a fraction of the job, the two fractions have to add up to 1
The apprentice worked a total 18 hr
+ = 1
mult eq by 8a, cancel the denominators and you have
2a + 8(18) = 8a
144 = 8a - 2a
144 = 6a
a = 144/6
a = 24 hrs for the apprentice alone
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Check this
+ =
.25 + .75 = 1
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