SOLUTION: If a new machine can make one toy in two hours and an old machine can make one toy in 5 hours how long would it take them to make one toy together?

Question 782518: If a new machine can make one toy in two hours and an old machine can make one toy in 5 hours how long would it take them to make one toy together?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Add their rates of making toys
( 1 toy ) / ( 2 hrs ) + ( 1 toy ) / ( 5 hrs ) = ( 1 toy / t hrs )

Multiply both sides by

It will take them 1 hr and 26 min

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