document.write( "Question 366420: This weekend I will invite three friends over to help me hang 12 pictures. Together it will take us 6 hours to hang them all. We will start at 9 a.m. I am done 2 hours before Lisa and Michele is finished 2 hours later than Lisa. How long does it take Lisa to hang her pictures? How long would it have taken if I hung them by myself? \r
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This weekend I will invite three friends over to help me hang 12 pictures.
\n" ); document.write( " Together it will take us 6 hours to hang them all.
\n" ); document.write( " We will start at 9 a.m.
\n" ); document.write( " I am done 2 hours before Lisa and Michele is finished 2 hours later than Lisa.
\n" ); document.write( " How long does it take Lisa to hang her pictures? How long would it have taken
\n" ); document.write( " if I hung them by myself?
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\n" ); document.write( "I understand that each of them will hang 4 pictures
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\n" ); document.write( "From the given information
\n" ); document.write( "It took Michele 6 hrs to hang her 4 pictures (2 hrs after Lisa)
\n" ); document.write( "It took Lisa 4 hrs (2 hrs after you)
\n" ); document.write( "It took you 2 hrs
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\n" ); document.write( " How long would it have taken if I hung them by myself?
\n" ); document.write( "It took you 2 hrs to hang 4, it will take you 3(2)= 6 hrs to hang 12 \n" ); document.write( "
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