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Question 395963: if you can paint the garage in 10 hours and your brother can paint it in 15 hours, how long will it take the two to paint the garage?

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Question 396116: It takes Mang kaloy 3 hours to plow his ricefield with his new tractor. Using the old tractor, it takes him 5 hours. If his son helped him plow the field, how long will it take them to plow the ricefield using both tractors?
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Question 396338: Fred can mow the lawn in 1 hour. John can mow the lawn in 2 hours. How long will it take them to mow the lawn together?
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Question 396484: Please show me how to solve this problem. I am sure that there is an equation to use but I do not know where to start.
A backyard pool is being drained. The pool contains 9925 gallons of water. At 9am, Drain 1 is opened which drains at 175 gallons every 15 minutes. At 10am, Drain2 is opened (Drain 1 continues draining, too) and it drains 450 gallons every 30 minutes. At what time will the pool contain 0 gallons of water?
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Question 396577: Working together, two pipes can fill the tank in 2 hours and 6 minutes. Working alone, the larger pipe fills the tank in 4 hours less time than the smaller on. How long does the larger pipe take?
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Question 396793: A small pump can drain a pool in 8 hours. A large pump can drain it in 5 hrs.
How long will it take them to drain the pool simultaneously? Suppose that the pumps could not be used simultaneously and that the pool was drained in exactly 6 hours. How long was each pump used?
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Question 397942: elsa can complete a typing job in six hours. She was given a helper and together they finish the job in only four days. How long would it take the helper had he worked alone
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Question 397960: One pump can empty a tank three times as another. working together they can complete a job in four hours, find the rate of each pump
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Question 397946: it takes mang kaloy 3 hrs to plow his ricefield with his new tractor. using the old tractor it takes him 5 hrs. if his son helped him plow the ricefield how long will it take them to plow the ricefield using both tractors
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Question 398033: A painting job can be completed by 7 painters in 24 days. If 14 more painters join the team 9 days after starting work on the job, then how many more days are required to complete the job?
can some one help solve this for me
thank you =)
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Question 398361: if four people can repair a vehicle in 5 1/2 hours, how many people working the same rate will it take to finish the job in 3 hours
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Question 398415: I think i may be on the right track but not sure. Here is the problem: One hose can fill a pool in 20 hours. Another hose can fill the pool in 16 hours. How long would it take the two hoses, working together to fill the pool?
Here is how i set it up t/20 + t/16 with a LCD of 2. 2 x (t/20 + t/16) = 2 x 1. I reduced it down to 10t+8t=2, I combine my like terms this gives me 18t=2. Now do i divide 18 into 2 or 2 into 18? Am I on the right track to solving this problem?
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Question 398502: If it takes 4 days for 6 people to finish a job, than how many days does it take 8 people to finish the same job?
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Question 398521: It takes pump A 2 hours less time than pump B to empty a certain swimming pool. Pump A is started at 8:00 A.M., and pump B is started at 11:00 A.M. If
the pool is still half full at 5:00 P.M., then how long would it take pump A working alone?

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Question 398793: If 4 boys can clean the gymnasium in 2 hours, how many minutes will it take 5 boys to do the job?
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Question 399132: John and sue completed a job in 20 hours. If John worked twice as many hours as Sue, find how many hours each person worked?
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Question 399132: John and sue completed a job in 20 hours. If John worked twice as many hours as Sue, find how many hours each person worked?
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Question 399618: Stan can load his truck in 24 minutes. If Chris helps him, it takes 15 minutes to load the truck. How long does it take Chris alone?
I understand what the problem is asking, but I do not know how to set up an equation for it. I had:
1/24+1/x=15
Time of stan=24
time of chris=x
total time together=15
Can you help me?
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Question 400132: lisa and sam need to paint a fence. lisa can do the
job alone 2 hours faster than sam. If together they work for 34
hours and ﬁnish only 2/3
of the job, how long would sam need to
do the job alone
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Question 400043: Al can complete a particular job in 8 hours. Boris can complete the same
job in 5 hours. Cody can complete a second job, which requires twice as
much work as the first, in 8 hours. If all three people work together on
the larger job for 2 hours, how long, in hours, would it take Al, working
alone, to finish the job?
A 0.8 B 3.0 C 6.8 D 8.0 E 8.8
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Question 400957: Nancy has 2 printers available to her. Together, the 2 printers can print a document in 9 min. The Epson Stylus 850 can print the document in 12 minutes working by itself. How long would it take her EPson Stylus 500 to print the document working by itself?
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Question 400936: matt and jeff need to paint a fence. matt can do the job alone 8 hours faster than jeff. if together they work for 19 hours and finish only 7/8's of the job how long would jeff need to do the job alone?
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Question 402056: working alone ,amy can clean an attic in seven hours. Jack can clean the same attiv in six hours. If they worked together how long would it take?
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Question 402220: if one guy can paint a house in 5 hours, and another guy can do it in 3, how long will it take them together if the 5 hour guy starts an hour earlier then the 3 hour guy?

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Question 402652: If Jaunita can mow her lawn in 6 hours, hat is her rate (in jobs per hour)?
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Question 402655: A rectangular pot of ground measuring 12 meters by 20 meters is surrounded by a sidewalk of uniform width. The area of the sidewalk is 68 square meters. Find the width of the sidewalk.
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Question 403116: The children at Tiny Tots Day care plant a rectangular vegetable garden with a perimeter of 39 m. The length is twice the width. Find the dimensions of the garden

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Question 403133: if prince can paint a house in 4hours and sam can paint the same house in 6hours how long will it take for both of them to paint the same house
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Question 403153: Mr. Brown painted two rooms in his house this past summer in 9 hours. Mr. Cook came over and helped him paint; the two of them worked together and painted another two rooms in 4 hours. How long would it have taken Mr. Cook to do the work, if he had done it himself?
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Question 403216: A mason can construct a retaining wall in 15 hours. With the mason's apprentice assisting, the task takes 10 hours. How long would it take the apprentice, working alone, to construct the wall?
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Question 404174: If it takes 3 man 4 days to lay 400 feet of pipe, how many men will it take to lay 2400 feet of pipe in 2 days?
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Question 381467: The OfficeJet printer can copy Maria's dissertation in 10 min. The LaserJet printer can copy the same document in 22 min. If the two machine work together, how long would they take to copy the dissertation?
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Question 404912: Working together, two people can mow a large lawn in 4 hours. One person can do the job alone 1 hour faster than the other person. How long does it take each person working alone to mow the lawn?

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Question 405087: It takes 6 hours to fill a tank, 8 hours to empty a tank. If both valves are open, how long does it take to fill the tank? I don't want the answer I just want help on setting up the problem. thank you for your time and help
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Question 405292: office has an old copying machine and a new one. together it takes both machines 4 hours to copy all financial reports. alone it takes the old copier 15 hours longer than the new one to make all copies . how long will it take the new copying machine to make all the copies
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Question 406050: Two men painted a room in 3 hours. How long would it take each of them while working alone to paint the room if the faster one can do it in 2 1/2 hours less than the other one?
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Question 406194: Jane can paint a 12 x 12 foot wall in 3/4 hour. how long will it take her to paint antohter wall that is 15 x 16 feet?
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Question 406691: there are 100 liters of water in a tub 10 liters of water is aded to the tub a minute(M) write an expression for the amount in liters in the tub after 5 mintues.

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Question 406713: three men paint a house in 5 days. How long will it take 2 men to paint the house?
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Question 406717: To supply a small factory with enerygy costs $580 per week when it is open 5 days a week for 8 hours a day. Find how much energy it will cost to supply the factory with energy if the working day is extended to 9.5 hours?
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Question 407100: sam can do job in 4 days, Lisa - 6 days, Tom - 2 days. How long would the job take to complete if they worked together ?
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