SOLUTION: My friend and I both have the same math homework one day. I work at a rate of p problems per hour and it takes me t hours to finish my homework. My friend works at a rate of 2p-4 p

Question 1038203: My friend and I both have the same math homework one day. I work at a rate of p problems per hour and it takes me t hours to finish my homework. My friend works at a rate of 2p-4 problems per hour and it only takes him t-2 hours to finish his homework. Given that p and t are positive whole numbers and I do more than 10 problems per hour, how many problems did I do?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39613) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

             RATE         TIME        PROBLEMS
YOU          p             t           pt
FRIEND       2p-4         t-2         (2p-4)(t-2)

You have two expressions and one inequality, yet still two unknown variables at best.
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