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Question 305682: 25 workers could finish a job in 8 days. 2 days into the job, 7 leave. how long will it take for the remaining 18 to finish the job?
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Question 306515: If it takes one man 6 hours to paint a house and the other man 12 hours to paint the same house. How long does it take the both of them to paint it together?
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Question 306566: I man can paint a house in 6 days and his son in 12 days. How many days will it take them if they painted it together?
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Question 307508: Mike and John can do a job together in 12 days. After John has worked alone 26 days, Mike finishes the job alone in 5 days. How long would the whole job take each man alone?
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Question 307837: melanie can do a job in 4 hours. kim can do the same job in 6 hours. if they work together, how long will it take to complete the job?
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Question 308299: "it takes 3 hours for two people to complete a particular job working together. If one of them could have completed the job alone in 8 hours, how long would it take the other to complete the job working alone?"
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Question 308392: It takes Sue 3 hours to paint a room and it takes Joe 5 hours to paint the same room. If they work together how long will it take them to paint the room?

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Question 308472: Colleen can paint a house in 2 hours less than james. Working together they can paint the house in 10 hours. How long would it take james to pain the house by himself?
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Question 308615: 10 men working 6 hours a day can complete a work in 18 days. How many hours a day must 15 men work to complete it in 12 days?
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plz solve it as soon as possible
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Question 309094: Here is my problem, A mad scientist develops a formula which can turn a light bulb into a camel. Working alone, it takes the scientist 4 hours to create one dose of formula. The mad scientist's slightly mad assistant Igor can make one dose in 12 hours. How long, working together, will it take the mad scientist and Igor to create one dose of formula. Answer the question by using a table and 5 step method.
I set the problem up like x/4+x/12=1 my answer was x=1/4. I don't think I have it set up correctly. Can you help me to set up the problem and I can finish working it out. Thanks a bunch!
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Question 309458: a,b, andc can finish a job in 6 days. if b and c work together, the job will take 9 days;if a and c work together, the job will be done in 8 days. in how many days can each man working alone do the job?
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Question 309529: two angles are complimentary. The larger angle is 1/5 of the smaller angle. Find the measurement of each.
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Question 309656: It takes Mary 4 hours to clean the house. John can clean the house in 6 hours. Working together, how long does it take to clean the house? What formula do you use to solve this problem?
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Question 309685: The length of a new rectangular playing field is 6 yards longer than triple the width. If the perimeter of the rectangular playing field is 492 yards. What are the dimensions?
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Question 309762: A completes one work in20 days. B cmpletes the same work in 25 days while C completes the same in 30 days. If intially A started the work and after 4 days he quit it. Next B carry forward the work & he copleted the half of the remaining work then how in how many days the C will cmplete the remaining work?
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Question 309801: If Sam can do a job in 4 days that Lisa can do in 6 days and Tom can do in 2 days, how long would the job take if Sam, Lisa, and Tom worked together to complete it? What equation do you need to find the answer?
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Question 309861: Hector can shovel show off the sidewalks in three hours (He doesn’t live in Southern California, of course). Oliver can shovel snow off the same sidewalks in 2 hours. How long will it take them to shovel the snow off
the sidewalks if they work together?

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Question 309873: y=3x
y-4x=10
solve for x
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Question 309889: Pipes A and B can fill a tank in 45 minutes when used together. Alone, pipe A can fill the tank in one hour. How long would it take to fill the tank if only pipe B is used?
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Question 310012: Jay can paint a car in six hours. Mike can paint the same car in 3 hours. If they work together, how long will it take them to paint the car?

I can't figure it out, so if you could please help and tell me how you got the answer I would love to know what to do to figure it out. Please and Thank you.
P.s sorry about the wrong topic my computer wouldnt let me select one.

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Question 310089: the flow rate for one pipe is 7 times that of another pipe. A swimming pool can be filled in 21 hours using both pipes. Find the time required to fill the pool using only the pipe with the lower flow rate

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Question 310372: The number of days it takes to complete a job varies inversely as the number of people assigned to the job. It if takes 7 people, 8 days to complete the job, how long will it take 10 people to complete the job?
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Question 310795: The gas tank of a truck cylinder is 4 ft long with a diameter of 2.5ft. At the gas station, a pump pours gas at the rate of 3ft cubed per minute. How many minutes does it take to fill the empty tank with that pump?
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Question 311042: You can paint a certain room in 3 hours. Your brother can do it in 4 hours. How long does it take the two of you working together?
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Question 311314: Stever can tape and mud the drywall of a room in 6 hours. Mike can do it in 4 hours. Mike joins Steve an hour after Steve starts and together they worked finishing the job. How long did each one work?
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Question 311811: Working together, Rick and Juanita can complete a job in 6 hours. It would take Rick 9 hours longer than Juanita to do the job alone. How long would it take Juanita alone?
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Question 312697: jack and jill are hired to empty a tank. if they work together it takes them 12 minutes. working alone, jack would take ten minutes longer thank jill to empty the tank. how long does it take for jack to empty the tank by himself? how long does it take jill?
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Question 312902: Jack and Jill are hired to empty a tank. If they work together it takes them 12 minutes. Working alone, Jack would take 10 minutes longer than Jill to empty the tank. How long does it take for Jack to empty the tank himself? How long does it take jill?
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Question 313191: Candy and Tim share a paper route. It takes Candy 40 min to deliver all the papers, and it takes Tim 110min. How long does it take the two when they work together?
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Question 313268: The time T required to do a job varies inversely as the number of people P working. It takes 5 hours for 7 bricklayers to build a park wall. How long will it take for 12 bricklayers to complete the job?
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Question 313481: Sam does the job in 4 days that Lisa can do in 6 days that Tom can do in 2 days. How long would it take to do the job if they all worked TOGETHER?
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Question 313606: A certain country's population P(t), in millions, t years after 1980 can be approximated by
P(t) = 5.495(1.016)t .
In what year did the country's population reach 3 million?
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Question 313741: please help i keep getting stuck =( please show work. thanks.
pam can build a house in 11 2/3 months and jerry can build a house in 8 3/4 months. if they work together, how long would it take to build the house working together.
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Question 313764: Janet can shovel snow from her driveway in 65 minutes. Tom can do the same job in 50 minutes. How long would it take Janet and Tom to shovel driveway together?
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Question 313795: A reservoir has 3 sources of water. Source A can fill the reservoir in 2 days, source B in 3 days and source C in 6 days. How long would it take to fill the reservoir using all 3 sources?
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Question 313753: A building contractor employs a master mason, a journeyman mason and an apprentice mason.
The master mason and the journeyman working together can finish a brick wall in 10 hours. It
takes the master and apprentice 12 hours to do the same job, while the journeyman and apprentice
require 15 hours to complete the task.
If all three work together, how long does it take to build the wall?
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Question 313993: A mason can build a wall in 10 hours. An apprentice can build a wall in 15 hours. How long would it take them to build the wall if they worked together?
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Question 314284: Paul picked 2 2/3 bushels of apples. Karl picked 4 1/3 bushels of apples. Carol picked 3 2/3 bushels of apples. How many bushels did they pick in all?
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Question 314096: 1.Some work is done by two people in 24 minutes. One of them can do this work
alone in 40 minutes. How much time does the second person take to do the same
work ?
2.A car is filled with four and half gallons of fuel for a round trip.If the
amount of fuel taken while going is 1/4 more than the amount taken for coming,
what is the amount of fuel consumed while coming back?
3.The lowest temperature in the night in a city A is 1/3 more than 1/2 the
highest during the day. Sum of the lowest temperature and the highest
temperature is 100 degrees. Then what is the low temp?

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Question 314331: the girl takes 2h to deliver newspapers to her 125 customers. the other girl delivers the same number of newspaper in 3h. how long will it take them to deliver the 125 newspapers if they work together?

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Question 314417: Jack mows the lawn in 3 hours. Jane mows the same yard in 4 hours. If they worked together how much time would it take them to mow the yard?
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