SOLUTION: One machine in a print shop can produce a certain number of pages twice as fast as another machine. Operating together, these machines can produce this number of pages in 8 minute

Question 38885: One machine in a print shop can produce a certain number of pages twice as fast as another machine. Operating together, these machines can produce this number of pages in 8 minutes. How long would it take each machine, working alone to produce this number of pages.
Answer by Paul(988) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
One machine can produce 2x as fast as other
Other can produce x as fast.
Equation:

x(x-12)
x=12
2(12)=24
Hence, one can produce the number of pages is 12 minutes while the other can produce the number of pages in 24 minutes.
Paul.
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