SOLUTION: Working with your cousin, you can finish a table in 8 hours. Working alone your cousin can complete the job in 10 hours. How long would it take you to refinish the table working

Question 380944: Working with your cousin, you can finish a table in 8 hours. Working alone your cousin can complete the job in 10 hours. How long would it take you to refinish the table working alone?
Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
together they can finish in 8 hours.
together they do 1/8 of the job in 1hour.
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cousin takes 10 hours.
so cousin does1/10 of the job in 1 hour.
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so you can do 1/8 -1/10 of the job in 1 hour.
LCD = 40
(5-4)/40 of the job you can do in 1 hour
=1/40 of the job.
so you will take 40 hours to do the job
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m.ananth@hotmail.ca
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