SOLUTION: Working alone, Kathryn can pick forty bushels of apples in eight hours. Elisa can pick up the same amount in nine hours. Find how long it would take them if they worked together. (

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Question 1122725: Working alone, Kathryn can pick forty bushels of apples in eight hours. Elisa can pick up the same amount in nine hours. Find how long it would take them if they worked together. (Round your answer to the nearest hundredth)?
Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, josgarithmetic:
Answer by ikleyn(52775)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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In order to be correct,

        the condition  MUST  SAY   "how long it would take them TO DO WHAT ?  if they worked together".


So take the labor to formulate the condition correctly.


Please. And thank you.

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    Looking on the @josgarithmetic efforts, I am wondering every time, 


    how this person, who can not practically solve correctly any problem, 


    is ready to solve enthusiastically even incorrectly formulated problems ! !


Answer by josgarithmetic(39616)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
BUSHELS per HOURS, rate

Both working together,





, bushels per hours

How much time, for 40 bushels?




4 hours and 14 minutes
or
4.24 hours
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