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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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Question 547938: Ok i am not understanding this question . A sightseeing boat makes 4 trips each day. It travels 9 miles on each trip. How many miles does it travel in 6 days ?
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Question 548134: At 10:00 a.m. pipe A began to fill an empty storage tank. At noon, pipe A malfunctioned and was closed. Pipe B was used to finish filling the tank. If pipe A needs 6h to fill the tank alone and pipe B needs 8h, at what time was the tank full?
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Question 548284: How long will it take someone running at 12 mph to catch up to someone walking at 5 mph with an hour and a half head start?
I'm thinking that I can set up a system of equations and figure it out from there, but I can't figure out how to set it up. help please!
Thank-you!
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Question 548376: If 50 persons take 30 days to do 40 works,then how many days will 25 person take to do 20 works?
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Question 548491: one pipe can fill a cooling tank in 3 hours less that a second pipecan.if the two pipes together can fill seven-ninths of the tank in 4 hours ,how many hours would it take each pipe alone to fill the tank
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Question 548504: a window washer can wash the windows on one side of a building in 112 working hours.with an assistant he can do the job in 63 hours.how many hours would the assistant need to do the job alone
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Question 548634: A pool can be filled in 12 hours using pipe A, or in 30 hours using pipe B. If both pipes are used, how long it will take to fill the pool?
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Question 548660: Eric tweeder can paint a wall in 10 minutes. His brother jessie can paint a wall in 15 minutes. How long will it take them to paint the wall together?
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Question 548666: Tweeder can paint a wall in 30 minutes. His brother jessie can paint the same wall in 20 minutes. How long will it take to paint the wall together?
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Question 548776: John paints a wall 6 hours longer then matt does. Together they paint a wall in 4 hours. How long does it take for each to paint the wall if they did it alone.
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Question 549340: a work crew of 4 people can clear 1800 square feet of shrubs in an hour. how long will it take six people to clear 3150 square feet?
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Question 549376: It takes you 4 days to paint a house if you paint for eight hours a day. It takes your brother 5 days. How long would it take you to pain the house together? Answers should be in days, hours, minutes form.
Please show the work, I have the answer but don't know how to figure it out.
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Question 549682: Jane runs 6 miles in 55 minutes. At the same rate, how many miles would she run in 22 minutes?
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Question 549657: if andrew can paint the house in 8 hours and pat can paint the house in 6 hours, how long will it take them to paint the house together?
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Question 548702: Working alone, emma can clean the stable in 8 hours. If Victoria helps her, they can complete the job in 3 hours. How fast can Vicctoria clean the stable alone?
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Question 550158: A pipe can fill a tank in 40 minutes. and another pipe have twice radius of the privius pipe is taken..then how many minute will it take to fill the tank?
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Question 550198: One pipe can fill a tank in 30 mins but a second pipe can fill it in 25 mins. How long will it take if both pipes are used?
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Question 471832: A cold water faucet can fill a sink within 12 minutes and a hot water faucet can fill it in 15 minutes. The drain can empty the sink in 25 minutes. If both faucets are on and the drain is open, how long will it take to fill the sink?
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Question 550575: person A takes 3 hours to work while person B takes 4 hours. how long does it take them when working together?
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Question 550575: person A takes 3 hours to work while person B takes 4 hours. how long does it take them when working together?
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Question 550478: Gary Egan needs to drain his 18,000-gallon inground swimming pool to have it resurfaced. He uses 2 pumps to drain the pool. One drains 5 gallons of water a minute while the other drains 25 gallons of water a minute. If the pumps are turned on at the same time and remain on until the pool is drained, bow long wil it take for the pool to be drained?
The time required to drain the water from the pool is ____minutes.
(Type an integer or a decimal.)
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Question 550734: I've looked for similar examples and haven't been able to transpose the rate of work formulas to figure this one out:
If 5 ppl can produce 64 surfboards in 4 days, how many surfboards can 8 ppl produce in 10 days?
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Question 550730: The total cost of a taxi ride is the sum of
a) A basic fixed cost for the first five miles
b) An additional charge for every three miles after the first five.
If the cost to travel 11 miles is $5, and the cost to travel 35 miles is $11, how many miles can you go with $7.25?
Please explain step by step, thanks.
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Question 547948: 4/a + 9/b =-1
1/a + 6/b = 1

solve the system of equations
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Question 550903: the amount of time it takes to paint a house varies inversly with the number of painters. if it takes 4 painters 40 hours how long would it take 10 painters?
A.100 HOURS B.26 HOURS C.20 HOURS D.16 HOURS ...... how did you get the answer?
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Question 548495: the sum of the reciprocals of two consecutive even integers is 13/84 .find these integers
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Question 550912: Ares had h hours of homework to do, but he just worked w hours. What fractional part of his homework remains?
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Question 548493: a boat completes a trip from riverton to clear creek and back each weekday.the distance one way is 60 miles ,and the speed of the current in the river is 4 miles per hour .if the round trip takes 8 hours ,determine the speed of the boat in still water
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Question 547870: a boat can sail 63 km with the current and only 45 km against the current in the same time. if the boat can travel 18 km per hour in still water, what is the rate of the current?
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Question 547951: 1/2 sqrt(18) - 3/sqrt(2) - 9 sqrt(50)
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Question 550936: i am really stuck on this problem can anybody help me, thanks! One computer can process a payroll in 6 h. An older computer can do the same job in 7 h 30 min. how long would it take both computers to do the processing?
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Question 551064: Three friends a,b,c can do a piece of work in T hours working together. working alone, a can do the work in 6 hours more, b in 1 hour more and c in twice the time if all of them were working together. How long would it take to finish the work if all of them were working together (find the value of T)?
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Question 551099: working alone, ryan can dig a 10 ft by 10 ft hole in five hours. castel can dig the hole in six hours. how long would it take them if they worked together?
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Question 551199: A water tank has two valves, A and B. When only valve A is open, the tank is emptied in 10 minutes Furthermore, it takes twenty minutes to empty the tank if only valve B is open. How long will it takes to empty the tank if both valves are open?
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Question 551226: Filling a tank. Two pipes are connected to the same tank. Working together, they can fill the tank in 4 hr. The larger pipe, working alone, can fill the tank in 6 hr less time than the smaller one. How long would the smaller one take, working alone, to fill the tank?
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Question 551352: A Painter can do a given job in 6hours. Her helper can do the same job in 10 hours. The painter begins the work and after two hours is joined by the helper. In how many hours will the complete the job? Please, thank you~ Happy New Year to you, Great Tutors! <3
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Question 551382: A tank can be filled by two pipes separately in 10 and 15 minutes respectively. When a third pipe is used simultaneously with the first two pipes, the tank can ve filled in 4 minutes. How long it take the third pipe alone to fill the tank? Please, thank you~ :) Happy new year, to all Tutors and Students! <3
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Question 551376: One group of workers can do a job in 8days. After this group has worked 3 days, another group joins it and together they complete the job in 3 more days. In what time could the second group have done the job alone? Please, thank you~ :)
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Question 551383: One group of workers can do a job in 8 days. After this group has worked 3 days, another group joins it and together they complete the job in 3 more days. In what time could the second group have done the job alone? Please, thank yoou~ Haappy New Year Tutors and Students! <3
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Question 552078: If 8 men could plough a field in 9 days, how many days would it take 18 men working at the same rate?
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Question 552126: Romeo is three years older than bernard. The sum of there ages is 7. How old is romeo?
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