SOLUTION: i need your help on this question "it will take an apprentice 15 days longer than a qualified painter to complete a job. however, if there is 3 apprentices and 2 qualified painters

Question 998050: i need your help on this question "it will take an apprentice 15 days longer than a qualified painter to complete a job. however, if there is 3 apprentices and 2 qualified painters working together the job can be completed in 25/8 days. how long will it take one apprentice to do the job?"
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Qualified painter, one-man rate,
Apprentice, one-man rate,

The next or second sentence uses the idea that if n agents are acting, and r is the rate of one agent, then the rate of n agents acting is n*r.

The 3 apprentices and two qualified painters:
This is the rate of the described group:

That group does 1 job in the given days.
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Solve for x in the rational equation.; and then evaluate x+15.
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