document.write( "Question 1154714: Howard and Edward, working together, can complete a job in 12 hours. Edward requires 18 hours to do this job alone. Howard and Edward start the job. After they worked for 4 hours, Howard left the job. How many hours will Edward require to finish the job working alone? \n" ); document.write( "
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Howard and Edward, working together, can complete a job in 12 hours. Edward requires 18 hours to do this job alone. Howard and Edward start the job. After they worked for 4 hours, Howard left the job. How many hours will Edward require to finish the job working alone?
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6 hours is WRONG!!
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document.write( "If both can do the job in 12 hours, then in 4 hours, they will have done: \"matrix%281%2C5%2C+4%2F12%2C+or%2C+1%2F3%2C+of%2C+job%29\"
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document.write( "With \"1%2F3\" of work completed by both, in 4 hours, \"matrix%281%2C7%2C+1+-+1%2F3%2C+or%2C+2%2F3%2C+of%2C+work%2C+remains%2C+undone%29\"
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document.write( "With Edward taking 18 hours to do entire job alone, and doing \"1%2F18\" of job in 1 hour, time (T) taken by Edward to complete remaining \"2%2F3\" of job is: 
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document.write( "T, or time taken by Edward to complete remaining \"2%2F3\" of job = \"highlight_green%28highlight%28matrix%281%2C2%2C12%2C+hours%29%29%29\" \n" );
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