SOLUTION: Jhon and Sam have a lawn mowing service. At one home, Jhon can mow the lawn by himself in 1 hours, but it takes Sam 1.5 hours. How many hours t will it take them to mow the same la

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Question 1176248: Jhon and Sam have a lawn mowing service. At one home, Jhon can mow the lawn by himself in 1 hours, but it takes Sam 1.5 hours. How many hours t will it take them to mow the same lawn together? Give the answer correct to one decimal place.
Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, greenestamps:
Answer by ikleyn(52784)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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John makes    of the job per minute.


Sam  makes    of the job per minute.


Their combined rate of work is   +  of the job per minute


     +  =  =  =   of the job per minute.


Hence, they will complete the job in 36 minutes working together.    ANSWER

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Answer by greenestamps(13200)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


Here is an alternative to the standard algebraic solution method show by the other tutor.

Consider the least common multiple of the two given times. The LCM of 1 hour and 1.5 hours is 3 hours.

In 3 hours the number of such lawns Jhon could mow is 3/1 = 3; in 3 hours the number Sam could mow is 3/1.5 = 2.

So in 3 hours the two of them together could mow 3+2=5 lawns. And that means together they can mow the one lawn in 3/5 hours, or 36 minutes.
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