SOLUTION: It takes the owner of a dog kennel 8 hours to clean all of the cages. If it takes her assistant 3 hours longer, how long will it take if they work together?

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Question 1186292: It takes the owner of a dog kennel 8 hours to clean all of the cages. If it takes her assistant 3 hours longer, how long will it take if they work together?
Answer by ikleyn(52864)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

The owner makes   of the job per hour.


The assistant makes   =   of the job per hour.


Their combined rate of work is   +  =  =   of the job per hour.


It means that working together, they complete the job in  


     hours = 4  hours = 4 hours and 37.9 minutes = 4 hours 38 minutes (approximately).    ANSWER

Solved.

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It is a standard and typical joint work problem.

There is a wide variety of similar solved joint-work problems with detailed explanations in this site.  See the lessons
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    - Solving more complicated word problems on joint work
    - Selected joint-work word problems from the archive


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Also,  you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I in this site
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The referred lessons are the part of this textbook under the topic
"Rate of work and joint work problems"  of the section  "Word problems".


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Free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I
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