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Question 963671: If 3 robots can make 17 cars in 10 minutes, how many cars can 14 robots make in 45 minutes?!
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Question 963810: 25 men dig a canal in 21 days. In how many days will 15 men dig it?

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Question 963821: All members of a crew work at the same pace. If only 4 members of the crew are working, they complete the job in 18 days. How much time will it take all 9 members of the crew to complete the same job?
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Question 963815: A garrison of 400 men had food enough for 15 weeks. Some men were sent out and the food lasted for 20 weeks. How many men were sent out?
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Question 964257: A robot can produce a total of 80 cars in 5 days. Each day it produces 4 less cars than the day before. How many cars does the robot produce a day?

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Question 964114: The second period College Algebra class of 33 students could do n problems in x hours. If 3 students were absent, how long would it take to do 100 problems???
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Question 964509: If 5 painters can paint 5 walls in 5 minutes, how many painters will it take to paint 60 walls in 30 minutes? Explain your reasoning.
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Question 964538: Working Together, Beth and Anna can clean their apartment in three hours. If Ana had done it alone, it would have taken her seven hours. How long would it have taken Beth if she had worked alone.
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Question 964600: Nine pumps can empty a tank in 12 hours how long will it take 8 pumps to empty it?
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Question 964689: It takes John 3 times as long as it takes Jessica to mow a lawn. If it took them both 11 hours to mow the lawn, how long would it take John to mow the lawn alone?

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Question 964722: It takes John 4 times as long as it takes Jessica to mow a lawn. If it took them both 11 hours to mow the lawn, how long would it take John to mow the lawn alone?
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Question 964811: James can save $255 a year how many months will it take him to save $170

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Question 964881: It takes 4 children 1 hour to sweep the yard. How long would it take 40 children to sweep the yard?
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Question 964881: It takes 4 children 1 hour to sweep the yard. How long would it take 40 children to sweep the yard?
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Question 964905: If 20 men can complete a piece of job in 8days, how long will it take 10 men to finish the job working at the same rate
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Question 965020: sam and bill can paint a fence in one hour. Sam can paint three times as fast as Bill in any given amount of time. How many minutes would it take Sam to paint the fence alone?
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Question 965087: If takes 7builders 20days how many builders to build in 14days?
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Question 965098: sally types 60 words per minute while Sue types 3000 words per hour. How much faster does Sally type?

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Question 965156: It takes Jill 10 hours to harvest a filed. Bill can harvest the sam field in 11 hours. If they work together how long will it take them?
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Question 965113: one pump can drain a pool in 3 minutes. when a second pump is also used, the poo; only takes 2 minutes to drain. How long would it take the second pump to drain the pool if it were the only pump in use?
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Question 965213: If 2 painters take 40 hours to paint a house,how many hours does 6 painters take to paint the same house?
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Question 965223: Explain the concepts fraction,rate and proportion ,and give examples of each
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Question 956809: Who was the person that pained wash day

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Question 954101: I make 11.00 dollars per hour i did 144 hours how much wood my check be
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Question 965418: working together john and bob can paint a house in 3 1/2 hours. working alone bob can do the job in 6 hours. how long does it take for john to do the job alone?
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Question 965476: It takes 35 minutes for 10 people to paint 7 walls.
How many minutes does it take 6 people to paint 6 walls?
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Question 965470: the salary of A is 20% below the salary of B and the salary of C is 56.25% greater than the salary of A.

by how much % is the salary of B less than the salary of C.
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Question 965580: it takes 58 minutes for 9 people to paint 9 walls. how many minutes does it take 20 people to paint 20 walls?
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Question 965701: It take 2 hours for 4 boys to mow 3 lawns of the same size. How long would it take 2 boys to mow 1 of these lawns?
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Question 965719: my team works for 6 days.Then we take 2.5 days off
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Question 965821: 4 month =how many days how many hour how many minutes & how many sec
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Question 965904: A crew will arrive in 1 week and begin filming a city for a movie. The mayor wants to clean the streets. 2 teams are available. Team 1 will take 200 hours to complete. Team 2 will take 500 hours to complete. How long will it take if both teams work together?
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Question 965964: After encoding the manuscript for 5 days, Agnes asked the help of her friend Xander. Together they finished the entire manuscript in 4 days. Had Xander joined in a day after Jane,the whole encoding work would have been finished in 7 days. How long would it have taken Agnes to encode the manuscript alone?
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Question 966216: 15 kilometers. The crew worked for 4 and 1/6 days. How many kilometers of road did they lay each day?
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Question 966358: Tom and Vivian are painting their house. If Tome were to work alone, it would take him 8 hours to paint the house. Together, Tome and Vivian can paint the house in 6 hours. How long would it take Vivian to paint the house alone?
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Question 966484: The number of days it takes to build a house is inversely proportional to the number of people helping to build it. If it takes 10 people 40 days to build the house, how long will it takes 8 people to build the house?
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Question 966482: The number o days it takes to build a house is inversely proportional to the number of people helping to build it. If it takes 10 people 40 days to build the house, how long will it takes 8 people to build the house?
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Question 966537: John can mow a lawn in 2 hours, and Peter can mow the same lawn in 3 hours. How long would it take to mow the lawn if they worked together?
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Question 966644: Jonastiza works for a local retailer and gets paid a standard hourly rate for the day shift and a higher hourly rate for the night shift. One week she worked 17 hours on the day shift and 8 hours on the night shift and earned $191. the following week, she earned $219 for working 12 day shift hours and 15 nigh tshift hours. what is her hourly rate for each shift?
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