SOLUTION: If you and your brother take 30 minutes to wash a car how long would it take if you can together? What if you take an hour?

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Question 899328: If you and your brother take 30 minutes to wash a car how long would it take if you can together? What if you take an hour?
Answer by ewatrrr(24785)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
 
Hi
|Multiplying thru by 30x so as all denominators = 1
x + x = 30
2x = 30
x = 15min
|Multiplying thru by x so as all denominators = 1
x + x = 1
2x = 1
x = .5 hr Or 30min
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