SOLUTION: Stephanie and Vivian agrred to start a Handyman's service. They plannes to work on six projects over the long weekend. They estimated that each job would take a certain amount of t

Question 1101493: Stephanie and Vivian agrred to start a Handyman's service. They plannes to work on six projects over the long weekend. They estimated that each job would take a certain amount of time. To their surprise, each job took three times that long. if the total time spent on projects was 36 hours, and if each job took the same amount of time what was their estimate of how long each job would take?
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Found 2 solutions by Shin123, josmiceli:
Answer by Shin123(626) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
36/2=18 18/3=6 hours each
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
hrs = how long they thought
the 6 projects would take
hrs = time they estimated each
project would take

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