document.write( "Question 1035313: Haileys father can paint a house 1.5 times faster then Hailey can. they work together on one house and it takes them 14 hours.
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document.write( "Let r be the Haileys rate of work, measured in job-per-hour.\r\n" );
document.write( "Then Haileys father's rate of work is 1.5*r, measured in job-per-hour.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Their combined rate of work (when they are working together) is r + 1.5r = 2.5r.\r\n" );
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document.write( "From the condition, 2.5r = .\r\n" );
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document.write( "Hence, r =  = .\r\n" );
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document.write( "It means that it takes Haileys 35 hours to complete the job.\r\n" );
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document.write( "To solve this problem, you do not need to solve quadratic equations.\r\n" );
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