SOLUTION: An oatmeal company has two oatmeal packing machines. The first machine can fill a shipment of bags in 16 hours. The second machine can fill a shipment of bags in 13 hours. How many

Question 825725: An oatmeal company has two oatmeal packing machines. The first machine can fill a shipment of bags in 16 hours. The second machine can fill a shipment of bags in 13 hours. How many shipments will the two machines fill working together for 72 hours?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39613) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

The rate of both machines working simultaneously is the sum of their rates, so this rate is shipments per hour.

shipments per hour.

This uniform rates situation is , Rate, time, shipments.

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