SOLUTION: alvin and resty can finish painting the room in two hours working together. Alvin can finish the same job in 3 hours lees than resty.How long will it take resty to paint the room w

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Question 1095686: alvin and resty can finish painting the room in two hours working together. Alvin can finish the same job in 3 hours lees than resty.How long will it take resty to paint the room when he works alone?
Answer by ikleyn(52778)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Their combined rate of work is    of the job per hour.

Alvin's individual rate of work is    of the job per hour.

Hence, Resty's individual rate of work is the difference   -  =  -  =   of the job per hour.


It means that Resty can complete the job in 6 hours working alone.

Solved.

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It is a typical joint work problem.

There is a wide variety of similar solved joint-work problems with detailed explanations in this site.  See the lessons
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    - Selected joint-work word problems from the archive


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


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Free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I
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