document.write( "Question 530227: Patsy can do 1/4 of a work in 10 days. Quincy can do 40% of the work in 15 days and Rhonda can do 1/3 of the work in 13 days. Who will complete the work first? \n" ); document.write( "
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Patsy can do 1/4 of a work in 10 days.
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document.write( "So when Patsy's finishes doing that 1 fourth of the work, she'll have 3 fourths\r\n" );
document.write( "left to do, so that'll take her 3 times as long as it took her to do 1 forth, \r\n" );
document.write( "so it'll take her 3 times 10 or 30 days.  \r\n" );
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\n" ); document.write( "Quincy can do 40% of the work in 15 days
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document.write( "So he can do 80% of the work in 30 days.  And he can do the other 20% of the\r\n" );
document.write( "work in half the time it takes him to do the first 40%, which is half of 15\r\n" );
document.write( "days or \"7%261%2F2\" days.  So altogether it will take him \"37%261%2F2\" days.\r\n" );
document.write( "That's longer than it takes Patsy. \r\n" );
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document.write( "So when Rhonda finishes doing 1 third of the work, she'll have 2 thirds\r\n" );
document.write( "left to do, so that'll take her 2 times as long as it took to do the 1 third,\r\n" );
document.write( "so it'll take her 2 time 13 or 26 days.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So:\r\n" );
document.write( "It'll take Patsy 30 days\r\n" );
document.write( "It'll take Quincy \"37%261%2F2\" days\r\n" );
document.write( "It'll take Rhonda 26 days.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So Rhonda will finish first.  Patsy will come in second and\r\n" );
document.write( "Quincey will bring up the rear.  (In math problems I've noticed\r\n" );
document.write( "that girls out-do boys a lot more than boys out-do girls.)\r\n" );
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