SOLUTION: One kind of bug can eat a leaf in 7 minutes. Another kind can eat the same leaf in 22 minutes. How long will it take if the bugs both eat the same leaf at the same time?
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Question 470411: One kind of bug can eat a leaf in 7 minutes. Another kind can eat the same leaf in 22 minutes. How long will it take if the bugs both eat the same leaf at the same time?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If A can do a job in x time periods, then A can do 
of the job in 1 time period. Likewise, if B can do the same job in y time periods, then B can do 
of the job in 1 time period.
So, working together, they can do
of the job in 1 time period.
Therefore, they can do the whole job in:
time periods.
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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