document.write( "Question 1095086: A piece of manufacturing equipment can produce enough items to fill an order in 10 hours. If an auxiliary piece of equipment is used also, it will take 7 hours. How long would it take the auxiliary equipment to fill the order working alone? \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( "The combined rate of work is  of the job per hour.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The known individual rate of work is .\r\n" );
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document.write( "It implies that the unknown individual rate of work is  =  = .\r\n" );
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document.write( "Hence, it will take  = 23 hours and 20 minutes for the auxiliary equipment to fill the order working alone.\r\n" );
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