SOLUTION: A wallpaper hanger requires 6 h to hang the wallpaper on one wall of a room. A second wallpaper hanger requires 4 h to hang the same amount of wallpaper. The first wallpaper hanger

Question 1176330: A wallpaper hanger requires 6 h to hang the wallpaper on one wall of a room. A second wallpaper hanger requires 4 h to hang the same amount of wallpaper. The first wallpaper hanger works alone for 3 h and then quits. How long will it take the second hanger, working alone, to finish papering the wall?
Answer by ikleyn(52787) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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One half of the job is just done,


and the second wallpaper will complete the remaining half in 2 hours.    ANSWER

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