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Question 663466: If janet can type 36 words per minute,how many words can she type in 10 seconds
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Question 663482: It takes Sarah 15 min to pick apples from the tree in her backyard. Lisa takes 25 min. How long will it take them working together?
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Question 663548: It takes my Father 3 hours to plow the our cornfield with his new tractor. Using the old tractor it takes me 5 hours. If we both plow for 1 hour befire I go to shcool.how long will it take him to finish
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Question 663495: Miguel works 3 times faster than Steven. Together they do a job in 9 hours. ow long does it take Steven working alone to do the same job?
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Question 663693: Connie can tpe a report in 4 hours. Mika can type the same report in two hours. How long would it take the two of them, working together, to type the report?
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Question 664888: Leslie can finish embroidery to (x2 + 3x - 10) pieces of barong in (x - 2) hours. what is her average rate per hour?
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Question 665479: sally can paint a room in 6 hours, it takes steve 3 hours to paint the same room. how long will it take if they both work together?
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Question 665589: It takes 16 painters 7 hours to paint a building, how many painters working at the same rate are needed to paint the building in 4 hours?
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Question 665623: If one person takes four hours to paint a house and another person takes 6 hours,how long will it take both of them to paint a house together?

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Question 665596: Tom, Dick, and Harry begin working together to dig a trench. Tom works twice as fast as Dick and one-third as fast as Harry. After one hour of work, Tom is called away. After Tom leaves, the other two finish the job in three hours. How long would it have taken Harry to dig the trench alone?
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Question 666013: if rita can type 55 words a minute. about how many minutes to the nearest minute will it take her to type a 16954 article?
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Question 666040: Betty paints twice as fast as dan. Working together, dan and betty can paint 2400 sq. ft. in 4 hours. Another employee sue joined their painting team. Working together dan betty and sue can paint 3600 sq. ft. in 3 hours
If sue works alone how many sq ft can she paint in 4 hours and 27 minutes

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Question 666084: Math word probelm:
Andy can paint a room in 4 hours, Betty in 6 hours and Chuck in 8 hours. If Betty and Chuck work together for 1 hour and then Andy joins them and they all work together until the room is finished, how long did Andy work?
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Question 666104: A painter can paint a certain house in 12 hours by herself but it takes her helper 15 hours to do the same job himself. the painter starts the job alone but her helper her 5 hours later. How long will it take the two of them together to finish painting the house?
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Question 666144: Say you were filling a tank with 3 different pipes, a, b,c . How would you find the answer to how long it would take to fill the tank with all three variables, instead of two like in the example shown in the lessons
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Question 666681: Mutt and Jeff need to paint a fence. Mutt can do the job alone 6 hours faster than Jeff. If together they work for 10 hours and finish only 4/5 of the job, how long would Jeff need to do the job alone?
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Question 666799: Huck Finn takes five hours longer to paint a fence than it does Tom Sawyer. Together, they can paint the fence in 6 hours. How long would it take each boy working on his own to paint the fence?
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Question 605337: 8 workers can paint a building in 24 days . How many days will 18 workers take to paint the same building ?
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Question 666907: Larry, Curly and Mo assembled a puzzle together in 40 hours. If Curly worked twice as fast as Mo and Larry worked just as fast as Curly, then how long would it have taken Mo to assemble the puzzle alone?
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Question 666989: a pipe can fill a tank in 120 minutes, while a drain can drain it in 150 minutes. if the drain is left open and the fill pipe is turned on how long will it take to fill the tub
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Question 667015: A printing press did a piece of work in 4 hours. When a second press was installed, both machines could complete the work in 2 and 1/2 hours. How many hours would it take for the second press to do the job on its own?
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Question 667151: a contractor estimated that 20 men can complete a tank in 10 days. After working for three days 5 men went to home and not come back to work again, so in how many days they will complete the remaining work?
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Question 667189: A,B and C can do a piece of work together in 15 days. B alone can do in 30 days and C alone can do it in 40 days. In how many days A alone will do the work?
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Question 667571: 9 gallons of paint covers 2025 area of wall how much will 27 gallons cover?
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Question 667792: "Work" word problem: Painting a House
Donald and Ken are painting a house this summer. Donald worked alone for 9 days. The next day Ken joined Donald to work on the house. Working together, they finished the house in 6 more days. If Ken could have painted the entire house in 22 days, how many days would it have taken Donald to paint the house alone. round the answer to the nearest whole number, if necessary.
Possible answers are: a) 21 b) 25 c) 30 d) 12
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Question 668219: Mary put in a total of 16 1/2 hours mowing lawns during 5 days of the past week. How long was her average work day?
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Question 668437: Find the interior angles of the triangle with vertices A=(3,2), B=(4,5), C=(-1,-1)
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Question 668896: One printer takes 4 hours to complete a job. Another printer can do the same job in 3 hours. When the job runs on both printers, how many hours will it take to complete?
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Question 669378: write each dec__al as a common fraction in lowest terms
A)0.075 b)0.75
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Question 669609: It takes 8 hours to fill a pool with the inlet pipe. It can be emptied in 12 hours with the outlet pipe. If the pool is 1/2 full to begin with, how long will it take to fill it from there if both pipes are open?
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Question 669842: Ray biked for 3/4 hour yesterday. Today she plans to bike for 5/6 of the amount of time she did yesterday. How long does she plan to bike today?
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Question 670509: Two pipes are attached to a 540 gal tank. One pipe can fill the tank in 10 hours. The other can fill the tank in 12 hours. Assume the tank is empty, how long will it take to fill the tank if both pipes are used?

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Question 670533: Two pumps can drain a pool in 36 hours. The older pump alone takes 30 hours longer to drain the pool than the newer one does alone. How long does the newer pump take to drain the pool?
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Question 670855: If an old guy does a job in 60 hours and an old guy and a new guy does a job in 15 hours, how long does the new guy do it himself?
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Question 670903: A faucet can fill a sink in 5 minutes while a drain will empty the same sink in 8 minutes. If the faucet is turned on and the drain is left open, how long will it take to fill the sink?
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Question 671372: if it takes 1 day to paint 3/4 of a house how many days will it take to paint 6 houses
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Question 671496: five farmers can plow a certain field in seven hours. how long will it take eight farmers to plow the same field? round to the nearest hundredth hour.
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Question 671603: A restaurant has a fixed costs of 137.50 per day and an average unit cost $4.75 for each meal served. If a typical meal cost $ 6 , how many customers must eat at the restuant each day for the owner to break even
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Question 672261: Maria takes 9 days to complete a piece of work.John takes 3 days to complete the same work and Linda completes it in 3 days.How long will it take if all of them work together?
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Question 672305: john cleans the house for two hours more than jane. If they work together they clean the house for 2 hours and 24 minutes. For how many hours does john clean the house? can you write the solution as well

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Question 672511: a man can complete a piece of work in 9 days but with the help of his son, he can do it in 6 days.the taken by his son to do it alone is
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Question 672824: A and B do a work together in five days If A do the work with double speed and B with half the speed then they do the work in 4 days together find A alone do the work in how much time.
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