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Question 536634: it take one pipe15 hours to empty a water tank while the second pipe requires 18 hours. if the pipe is opened for 7 hours and then closed when the second pipe is opened,how long will it take the second pipe to empty the water tank pls email it to me johnreygayaso@yahoo.com
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Question 536726: Two hoses are used to fill a water trough. The first hose can fill it in 20 minutes while the second hose needs only 16 minutes. If the second hose is used for the first 4 minutes and then the first is also used, how long will the first hose be used?
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Question 536773: why can not the sum of 100000
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Question 537028: Please help me with this problem:
Working together, Ann and Vicky can finish the report in 2 2/9 hours. If Ann can type a report in 5 hours, how many hours can Vicky type the same report alone?
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Question 537125: A can do a piece of work in 7 days of 10 hours each & B can do it in 5 days of 12 hours each. How long will they take to do it, working together hours a day
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Question 537263: Beth, Bill, and Edie, can paint a house together in 10 hours. BIll and Edie together can paint the same house in 15 hours. One day, all three worked on the same kind of house for 4 hours, after which Edie left. Beth and BIll required 8 more hours to finish. Assuming no gain or loss in efficiency, how long should it take each person to complete such a job alone?
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Question 537277: I need help with this please;
If a farmer uses a large tractor, she can plow a field in 8 hours. Her sister, using a smaller tractor, can plow the same field in 12 hours. How many hours would it take to plow the field if they worked together? Express your answer as a mixed number.
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Question 537398: the larger of two pipes can fill a tank twice as fast as the smaller pipes. together the two pipes require 20 minutes to fill the tank. find the number of minutes required for the larger pipe to fill.
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Question 537526: How long would your friend take to paint a room if you & a friend can paint a room together in 6hrs. Alone your friend would take 3times as long as you to paint the room.
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Question 538094: Two pumps can fill a water tank in 104 minutes when working together. Alone, the second pump takes 2 times as long as the first to fill the tank. How many minutes does it take the first pump alone to fill the tank?

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Question 538098: A swimming pool is being drained through the drain at the bottom of the pool, and filled by a hose at the top. If the hose can fill the pool in 21 hours and the drain can empty the pool in 24 hours, how many hours would it take to fill the tank if the drain were left open?

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Question 539007: Rashard drives 100 mi from Detroit to Lansing, and later drives 90 mi more from Lansing to Grand Rapids. The trip from Lansing to Grand Rapids takes him a half hour less than the drive from Detroit to Lansing. What is his driving average speed if it is the same on both parts of the trip?
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Question 540498: A lawn can be mowed at an average rate of 44 square feet per minute. What is the rate of square yards per second. How do I solve this?
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Question 540598: Show an equation and a solution for the problem. It takes John 20 hours to paint a building. It takes Sam 15 hours to paint the same building. How long will it take for them to paint the building if they work together, with Sam starting one hour later than John? Round to the nearest tenth.
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Question 540638: One task can be done in 6 days by both Arin and David workin together.If only one works on it, Arin finishes 5 days befor David. If arin works on it alone, how many days will it take her if she works alone?
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Question 540723: Two men, working full time, paint a room in 8 hours. How long would it take five men to paint the same room full time at the same rate?
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Question 540710: Brain and David can finish the job in 12 days if they work together. If only one of them works on a job, David will take 10 days longer than Brain. How many days does David need to finish the job alone?
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Question 540713: City A and City B are 135 km away. Two cars drove from A to B. The first car left 5 hours earlier. The second car arrived City B 30 minutes later than the first one. If the ratio of the speed of the first to the speed of the second car is 2:5, find the speed of the first car.
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Question 540934: Two guys work at some speed...After some time one guy realizes he has done only
half of the other guy completed which is equal to half of what is left !!! #$%#$
So how much faster than the other is this guy supposed to do to finish with the first...
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Question 540708: To finish one task, Cathy need 2 more days than Mike.Cathy worked on it for 3 days, then Mike worked on it another 4 days. They only finish 80% of the task. How many days does Cathy need to finish the task alone.
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Question 541504: It takes Matt and Angie 4 hours to clean a house together. Separately it takes Matt two times as long as Angie, how long does it Angie to clean a house alone?
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Question 540853: A truck drove from City A to City B, and the car drove from City B to City A on the same road leaving at the same time. When they met, the truck drove 108 km more than the car. The truck took another 9 hours to arrive at city B, and the car took another 16 hours to get to City A. What is the distance between the two cities?
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Question 541761: if 6 people do a certain job in 8 hours how long will it take 16 people working at the same speed?
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Question 541944: Two tanks, one with 2m diameter pipe and the other with two 1m diameter pipes which one epties faster?
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Question 541991: Joe took 4 hours to fill the pool and Jim took 6 hours to fill the pool. If they filled the pool at the same time how long would it take them?
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Question 542430: 9 men took 20 hours to paint a house. If all the men work at the same rate, how many hours would 15 men take to complete painting the house?
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Question 542446: Copier A can make 300 photocopies of a page in 15 minutes.Copier B can do the same job in 12 minutes.If both copiers will work together,how long will it take them to do the job?
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Question 542900: Leigh is paid time-and-a-half hours worked in excess of 40 hours and double-time for hours worked on Sunday. If Leigh had gross weekly wages of $342 for working 50 hours, 4 of which were on Sundays, what is her regular hourly rate?
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Question 544051: it will take 3/4 of a can of paint to paint a room.you have one can that is 1/3 full. how much more is required?
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Question 544462: On an assembly line, five workers take six hours to complete a job. How long will it take two workers?
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Question 544460: The country's new paving machine can surface 1km of highway in 8 hours, whereas it takes the old one 12 hours. How long will it take them to surface 20 km of highway if they start at opposite ends and work day and night?
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Question 544951: Working together, a job takes Tom and Joe 8 days, Tom and Dave 13 1/3 days, and Joe and Dave 6 2/3 days. How long does it take each person to do the job alone?
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Question 545108: i need help on this problem $10,000 for 20 minutes it's on rates which is for ratios please please please pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeee help me i need the answer by tonight im begging you im dying here

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Question 544724: Two crews can complete a job in 45 days when working together. On their own, one crew completes the same job in 80 days. How long would it take the other crew to complete the same job on their own?
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Question 545003: Tom and Jack are shingling a roof. Tom takes 75% of the time Jack does to shingle a roof. Together they finish the roof in 5 hours. A monkey comes along and pulls the shingles off in 9 hours. How long does it take Tom, Jack and the monkey to shingle one roof?
I tried 3/4t + t -1/9t = x
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Question 545850: If it takes a person 9 hours to paint a fence and it takes another person 5 how long will it take both of them to paint the fence working together

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Question 546489: A certain piece of work can be completed by 40 worker in 40 days. if 5 works leave every 10 days, in how many days d work will be completed?
(a) 170/3 days
(b) 121/2 days
(c) 75 days
(d) 55 days
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Question 547151: "A HOSE can fill a swimming pool in 6 hours. Another HOSE needs three more hours than the two HOSES combined. How long would it take for the second PIPE to fill the tank?
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Question 547216: Ben can paint a fence in 3 hours and Billy takes 4 hours. How long will it take them to painting together
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Question 547385: Two hoses are filling a swimming pool. The hose with the larger diameter supplies 1.5 times as much water as the hose with the smaler diameter. The larger hose is on for 2hrs before the smaller hose is turned on. If 5 hours after the larger hose is turned on there are 3150 gallons of water in the pool, find the rate of flow from each hose?
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Question 547604: with both hot and cold water running, a bathtub can be filled in 10 minutes. The drain will empty the tub in 15 minutes. A child turns both faucets on and leaves the drain open. How long will it be before the bathtub starts to overflow?
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Question 547846: one pipe can fill a tank in 12 hours, and another can fill the tank in 8 hours. how long will it take both pipes working together to fill the tank?
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