SOLUTION: "diane gray and lucy hoag together can prepare a crawfish boil for a large party in 4 hours. lucy alone can complete the job in two hours less time than Diane alone. find the time

Question 1026533: "diane gray and lucy hoag together can prepare a crawfish boil for a large party in 4 hours. lucy alone can complete the job in two hours less time than Diane alone. find the time in which each person can prepare the crawfish boil alone."
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
d is the time in hours for Diane to do the one job alone.
Lucy would need d-2 hours to do the same one job alone.

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