SOLUTION: Two technician can complete a mailing in 3 hours when working together. Alone, one can complete the mailing in 2 Hours faster than the other. How long will it take each person to c

Question 1077871: Two technician can complete a mailing in 3 hours when working together. Alone, one can complete the mailing in 2 Hours faster than the other. How long will it take each person to complete the mailing alone? Complete the answer to two decimal places.
Answer by ikleyn(52864)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Look into the lesson
    - Using quadratic equations to solve word problems on joint work,
in this site.

It contains the solutions to similar problems.

These problems and their solutions are your samples.

Read the solutions and then solve your problem by the same way.

Also, you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I in this site
    - ALGEBRA-I - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.

The referred lesson is the part of this textbook under the topic "Rate of work and joint work problems" of the section "Word problems".

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