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Question 457991: a winery has a barrel to hold chardonnay. An inlet pipe can fill the barrel in 11 hours, while an outlet pipe can empty the barrel in 14 hours. how long will it take to fill the barrel if both the inlet and outlet poprs are open
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Question 458011: It takes a plane eight hours to fly 1280 miles with the wind. If it takes it 12 hours and 48 minutes (12.8 hours) to cover the same distance when flying against the wind, find the speed of the wind in miles per hour.
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Question 458236: If it takes 6 men 6 days to dig 6 holes, how long would it take 100 men to dig 50 holes?
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Question 458675: If it takes 4 men 20 days to build a house how long would it take 6 men to build the house?
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Question 458868: An aircraft carrier left the pier traveling east eight hours before a fishing boat. The fishing boat traveled in the opposite direction for four hours, going 5 mph slower than the aircraft carrier. The ships were then 380 miles apart. What was the aircraft carrier's speed?
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Question 458867: It takes Rob 10 hours to clean an attic. Sam can clean the same attic in 11 hours. How long would it take them if they work together?
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Question 459216: 2 h and 30 mins to fill a swimming pool using 2 hose pipes,how long will it take nina to fill the pool if she uses 3
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Question 459219: If it takes seven men 2.5 hours to clean up a street after a New Year's party, how long (in hour and minutes) would it take for three men to do the job?
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Question 459485: One pipe can fill a tank in 40 hours, while a second pipe can fill the same tank in 32 hours. How long would it take both pipes working together to fill the tank?
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Question 458859: Working alone, it takes Sue 13 hours to pick 40 bushels of apples. Kim can pick the same amount in 15 hours. If they work together, how long would it take them?
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Question 459861: Six tractors can plow a field in 8 hours if they all work together. How many hours will it take 4 tractors to do the job?
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Question 459510: suppose that a small pump can empty a swimming pool in 60 hours and that a large pump can empty a pool in 40 hours. working together, how long will it take to empty the pool?
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Question 460758: A man and a boy can do in 15 days of work in which would be done by 7 men and 9 boys in 2 days. How long would it take one man to do it alone?
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Question 461051: If a worker can do a job in 10 hours, and another can do that job in 7, how long would it take both of them to do that job together?
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Question 461177: Rwo hikers walking in opposite directions start from camp at the same time. The average rate of the westbound hiker is 2 km/hr more than the rate of the eastbound hiker. If they are 15 km apart after 1,5 hr, what is the rate of each hiker.
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Question 460750: it takes two laser printers 108 minutes, working together to complete 5760 page print job. if each printer is printing this job alone, the first laser printer takes 90 minutes longer than the second laser printer.
How long does it take each printer to print the job alone? What is the speed of each printer?
It takes the second printer ? number of minutes to complete the job alone.
It takes the first printer ? number of minutes to complete the job alone.
The speed of the second printer is ? number of pages per minute.
The speed of the first printer is ? number of pages per minute
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Question 462660: A can work twice as fast B . If B takes 12 days to complete a work how long will A take to do it alone

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Question 463256: 10 men can paint 30 houses in 60 days,so 5 men can paint 16 houses in how many days?
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Question 462200: Three men, four women and six children can complete a work in seven days. A women does double the work a man does and a child does half the work a man does. How many women alone can complete this work in 7 days.
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Question 464281: it takes steven four times as long to cut the lawn as it does andrew. working together it takes them 2 hours to cut the lawn. how long will it take steven to cut the lawn alone?
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Question 464859: it takes brenda 2 and 1/2 hours to mow her lawn. How much of the lawn will she have mowed after 1 hour?
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Question 464859: it takes brenda 2 and 1/2 hours to mow her lawn. How much of the lawn will she have mowed after 1 hour?
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Question 464785: it takes Tom and John 2 hours to do a certain job,it takes tom and harry 3 hours to do the same job and it takes john and harry 4 hours to do the same job. how long would it take tom, john and harry to do the job if all 3 worked together?
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Question 464962: how long does it take to paint 200 lf of 1 1/2 inch diameter pipe railing?

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Question 465648: taylor can paint a room in twelve hours. Jennifer can paint the room in ten hours. How long does it take for both taylor and jennifer to paint the room if they are working together?
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Question 465644: it takes tweanty-four days for eighteen people,who are all working together at the same rate, two build a house. how long would it take six people to build a house?
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Question 465706: Tom can paint a room in 5 hours; if he works with Tim, they can paint together the same room in 2 hours. How long does it take for Tim to paint the room by himself?
I came up with 1/5 � 1/2 = x
I think X would be 3, that Tim could paint the room in 3 hours. But I am not sure. Please help any advice would be great, tahnk you!
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Question 466903: A building is 5 stories tall with windows on all four sides. Each floor has 24 windows. The cost for washing windows is $1.00 for first floor, $1.50 for second floor, etc. How much will it cost to wash the windows on this building? (I know this answer).
I need help with the second question: What if the building were n stories tall?
I appreciate your help. Thank-you!
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Question 467106: A study shows that an office staff of x people will consume y cups of coffee over a period of z days. At this rate, how long would it take a staff of 3x people to consume y/12 cups of coffee?
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Question 467210: if it take 30 men to do a task in 16 days how many men would need 20 days for a task
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Question 467210: if it take 30 men to do a task in 16 days how many men would need 20 days for a task
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Question 467347: if 4 men can mow certain piece of land in 6 days ,working 10 hours a day, how many days would it take 6men to mow the same land, if they worked 8 hours per day?
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Question 467520: next door neighbors Bob and Jim use hoses from both houses to fill Bob's swimming pool. they know that it takes 18 hrs. using both hoses.they also know that bob's hose,used alone takes 20% less time than jims hose alone how much time is required to fill the pool by each hose alone?
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Question 467979: Rate of work problems: I have no experience with them and I was given the below problem without any explanation from my professor.
Problem:
Monica takes one hour to wash a car and bill takes two hours. How long will it take them to wash one car together?
Thank you.
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Question 468223: I need help understanding how to solve and write this problem. I also want to understand the concept of it.
A roofer can shingle a house in 12 hours. He starts a house with an apprentice and they work 3 hours until the roofer falls off and is carried away. It takes the apprentice another 12 hours to finish. How long would it take the apprentice working alone to do an entire home?
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Question 468331: how many liters of water must be evaporated from 200 liters of a 4% salt solution so that the remaining solution will be 6.4% salt?
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Question 468358: One man need 2hours to finished the job 2man need 5 hours.How long take both of them fibiahd the job
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Question 468376: in a certain fraction, the denominator is 4 less than twice the numerator. If 15 is added to the numerator and subtracted from the denominator, the value of the fraction is 4. Find the original fraction.
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Question 468396: if the largest of three consecutive even integers is multiplied by three, the product is 2 less than twice the sum of the first two integers. find the integers.
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Question 468374: The sum of the Three Numbers is 55. The second number is twice the first number, and the third number is three more than one-third the sum of the first two numbers. What are the numbers?
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Question 468381: a storekeeper has cashew nuts that sell for $130 per kilogram and peanuts that sell for $60 per kilogram. He wishes to make a mixture of 50kg of the two kinds of nuts so that he can sell it for $78 per kilogram. how many kilograms of each will he have to put into the mixture?
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Question 468946: what kind of essay is people and places?

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Question 468944: what kind of essay people and places?

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