SOLUTION: Barn Painting. Melanie can paint a certain burn by herself in x days. Her helper Melissa can paint the same barn by herself in 2x days. Write a rational expression for the fract

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: Barn Painting. Melanie can paint a certain burn by herself in x days. Her helper Melissa can paint the same barn by herself in 2x days. Write a rational expression for the fraction of the barn that they complete in one day by working together. Evaluate the expression for x=5.
Please help solve the rational expression This question is from textbook Elementary & Intermediate Algebra

Answer by Earlsdon(6294) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If Melanie can paint the barn in x days, then she can paint of the barn in 1 day.
If Melissa can paint the barn in 2x days, then she can paint of the barn in 1 day.
Working together, they can paint of the barn in 1 day.
If x = 5, then:
=
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