SOLUTION: 2 painters painted 60 rooms in 1 week. Painter A painted 4 times as fast as painter B. How many rooms painter A painted in 1 week?

Question 850421: 2 painters painted 60 rooms in 1 week. Painter A painted 4 times as fast as painter B. How many rooms painter A painted in 1 week?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
4 times as fast means A can paint
4 times as many rooms/week as B
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Let = number of rooms/wk
that B can paint
Add their rates of working to get
their rate working together
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( 60 rooms ) / ( 1 wk ) = their rate working together
( 4n rooms ) / ( 1 wk ) = A's rate of working
( n rooms ) / ( 1 wk ) = B's rate of working
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A can paint 48 rooms in 1 week
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