document.write( "Question 1187966: A new crew of painters takes two times as long to paint a small apartment as an experienced crew. Together, both crews can paint the apartment in 6 hours. How many hours does it take the experienced crew to paint the apartment? \n" ); document.write( "

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represent the number of hours it takes the experienced crew to do the entire job by themselves. Then

must represent the number of hours the inexperienced crew takes to do the entire job by themselves.\r
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hours, they can do

of the job in one hour. Likewise, the inexperienced crew can do

of the job in one hour.\r
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of the job in one hour.\r
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of the job in one hour, they can do the whole job in

hours. But we know that they take 6 hours working together, so:\r
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