SOLUTION: Anita can clean a typical pool in 8 hours. Chao can clean a typical pool in 6 hours. How long should it take Anita and Chao working together to clean a typical pool? Leave your fin
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Question 1032647: Anita can clean a typical pool in 8 hours. Chao can clean a typical pool in 6 hours. How long should it take Anita and Chao working together to clean a typical pool? Leave your final answer as an integer or reduced fraction.
Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The typical set up for these work problems is
where A and B are how long they can do it by themselves, and t is how long they work together...thus, in our problem...
Multiply by 24 and get
3t + 4t = 24
7t = 24
t = 24/7 hours
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