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Question 1035313: Haileys father can paint a house 1.5 times faster then Hailey can. they work together on one house and it takes them 14 hours.
How many hours will it take Hailey to paint a house working alone
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Question 1035397: John is deciding between two jobs. One promises convenient hours and is closer to his
home. The other pays $2.25 more per hour, and John would earn $1,000 in 10 hours less
than it will take him to earn $900 at the first job. What is the hourly wage for each job?
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Question 1035426: Please help with the following problem:
It takes 18 electricians 35 days to wire a new housing subdivision. How many days would 28 electricians require to do the same job?
Thanks!
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Question 1035505: One computer need to 75 hours to solve a complicated problem , but a better computer needs 50 hours to solve the same problem .if both computers work in parallel,how much time will be Required to solve the problem?
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Question 1035572: Please help me solve this find the interior angle of a triangle whose vertices are A(-3,3) B(5,5) C(2,-4)
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Question 1035580: tap A can fill the tank in 6 minutes and tap B in 3 minutes. how long will both tapes take to fill the tank if opened at the same time

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Question 1035697: if it takes 3 men 11 days to dig a tench , the number of days it will take 5men to diag the same tench ,assuming all work is done at the same rate of speed?
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Question 1035896: Jack and Jill finished a job together in 15 days. But when Jill joined Jack only after he worked for 12 days, they finished the same job in 6 days more. How many days can each of them finish the job alone?
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Question 1036042: What number when multiplied by itself is 13 greater than the preceding number when it is multiplied by itself
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Question 1035944: A and B agreed to do a job for rs 360.they can complete the job in 12 days but with the help of C they complete in 9 days.what is A share if B alone can complete the entire job in 18 days
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Question 1036125:
What number when multiplied by itself is 13 greater than the preceding number when it is multiplied by itself
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Question 1036143: 17 men can paint a wall in 6 days. How long will 2 men take to paint the same wall?
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Question 1036166: Kate has 2 more apples than she needs in order to have one-third of the apples that Renee has. Kate is 8 apples short of having half of the apples that Renee has. How many apples does Kate have?
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Question 1036207: Five brick-layers working together can build a wall in 20 days.
Suppose every brick-layer works at the same rate. Three
brick-layers work on the wall for 10 days before eleven more
brick-layers join them. How much longer will it take them to
finish the wall?
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Question 1036373: person A can finish a piece of work in 12hrs less than person B.If they work together 4/9 of the work is done in 5hrs.How long does it take them to do the work?
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Question 1036541: Three men do a piece of work,the first does 7/15,the second does 5/9 of the reminder while the third does the rest.if the rest done by the third person equal 24 units,find the whole piece of work? From Esther.
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Question 1036631: My brother and I have to whitewash both sides of a fence. We start at the same time, and we each work at a constant rate. If we each whitewash one side, I'll finish in 2 hours and my brother will finish in 3 hours. After I finish my side, I go around to the other side and help my brother finish his side. From the time I start helping him, how many minutes does it take us to finish the job?
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Question 1036777: Wayne has 4 times as many oranges as Phil, who has one-third as many oranges as Greg. If Wayne has 32 oranges, how many oranges does Greg have?
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Question 1036720: If a student is working 35% of 20 minutes what % would tha be the of 30 minutes?
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Question 1036910: If bob and bill work together, they can do a job in 3h 44 min. If it takes Bob one hour more to the job than it takes Bill,
find the time it would take each of them working alone to do the job.
Thank you.
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Question 1036966: If it takes a crew 9 days to do 80% of the job, how many more days will it take to finish the job 100%
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Question 1037369: two pipes running simultaneously can fill a tank in 2 hours and 40 minutes. after the large pipe had run for 3 hours the smaller pipe was also turned on and the tank was full 40 minutes later. how long would it take the smaller pipe to fill the tank alone?
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Question 1037379: A and B working together can finish the job in 10 days. if A works 4 days and B works 3 days, one-third of the job shall be finished. how many days will it A to finish the job
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Question 1037381: josie can type 100 words in the same time that it take jane to type 75 word. if jane's typing rate is 8 words per minute less than that of josie's, find jane's typing rate
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Question 1037504: Please help with the following rate question?
Ian can remodel a kitchen in 20 hours and Jack can do the same job in 15 hours. if they work together, how many hours will it take them to remodel the kitchen?
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Question 1037565: (a).60 people working 8 hours a day takes 4 days to farm . How long will it take 20 people to do the same farm if they work 15 hours a day?Thank you

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Question 1037631: Mother and son's age are in the ratio 7:8.father and son's ages in ratio 8:5. Find ratio age of father and mother.
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Question 1037630: 12 children working 8 hours a day can clean up their school in 5 days, then 8 children working 19 hours a day will clean the school in how many days.
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