SOLUTION: If A and B can paint the fence of a park in 8 days, B and C can paint the fence in 12 days and C and A can paint the fence in 6 days. In how many days will each one of them paint t

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Question 1063809: If A and B can paint the fence of a park in 8 days, B and C can paint the fence in 12 days and C and A can paint the fence in 6 days. In how many days will each one of them paint the fence?

Answer by ikleyn(52778) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Similar problem was solved in the lesson
    - Joint-work problems for 3 participants, Problem 2
in this site. Consider it as a sample and solve your problem by the same way.


There is a bunch of lessons on joint-work problems with detailed explanations in this site:
    - Using Fractions to solve word problems on joint work
    - Solving more complicated word problems on joint work
    - Using quadratic equations to solve word problems on joint work
    - Solving rate of work problem by reducing to a system of linear equations
    - Selected joint-work word problems from the archive
    - Joint-work problems for 3 participants
    - OVERVIEW of lessons on rate-of-work problems

Read them and get be trained in solving joint-work problems.


Also, you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I in this site
    - ALGEBRA-I - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.

The referred lessons are the part of this textbook under the topic "Rate of work and joint work problems" of the section "Word problems".