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Question 696385: two taps A and B together fill a swimming pool i 15 days . Tap A and B are kept open for 12 days and then tap B is closed . It takes another 8 days for the swimming pool to be filled. How many days each tap require to fill the swimming pool
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Question 696478: Suppose I paint a wall in 10 hours, and you and I together paint a wall in 2 hours. How much faster do you paint a wall than I?
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Question 696478: Suppose I paint a wall in 10 hours, and you and I together paint a wall in 2 hours. How much faster do you paint a wall than I?
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Question 696722: 'A' can complete a work in 6 days and 'B' in 5 days. They work together with their full capacities and receive rs 220 as wages for the work. What is The share of 'B'
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Question 696749: Three pipes can fill a pool in eight hours. A drain can empty the full pool in twelve hours. How many hours will it take to fill a quarter of the pool if the three pipes and the drain are open?
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Question 696746: Three pipes can fill a pool in eight hours.A drain can empty the fill pool in twelve hours.How many hours will it take to fill a quarter of the fool if the three pipes and drain open?
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Question 696703: It takes a smaller hose twice as long to fill a certain swimming pool as it does a larger hose. It takes both hoses working together minutes to fill the pool. How long will it take the larger hose to fill the pool by itself?
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Question 696824: If it is snowing 1/3" per hour, how long until it reaches 2'?
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Question 696715: 2 pipes fill a tank in 10 minutes, large pipe fill twice the smaller and out of one pipe empty 45 minutes. how much time taken by the small pipe to fill
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Question 696979: Person A saves 50 Dollars and at the moment has 20 Dollars.
Person B saves 20 Dollars and at the moment has 110 Dollars.
After how many days will they have an equal amount?

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Question 697019: It takes 14 taps to fill a swimming pool in 10 hours. How long will it take 5 taps to fill the pool?
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Question 697146: two old machines and a new one are put to work on a contract. Each of the old ones requires twice as much time as the new one to do the job. Together, the three machines complete the work in 2 days. How long would it take each machine to do the work alone?
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Question 697172: I have been struggling with this for the last hour...
Three machines are twisting pretzels. Two are old and one is new. The new machine can twist pretzels twice as fast as an old machine can. An old machine can twist the daily quota of pretzels in 20 hours. How long will it take to make the quota if the three machines are operated at the same time?
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Question 697263: If a race starts at 11am and is 2.5 hours long , at what time does it finish?
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Question 697293: If one guy paints a house in 12 hrs and another paints it in 6hrs .how long would it take them to paint it together
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Question 697111: If fourteen computers get done in five hours by three people how long would it take one person to fix one computer
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Question 697350: Work crews A, B and C can set up the steel structure of a building in 10 days if they work together. If they work alone, crew A would take 60 days to do the job and crew B would take 3 times long as long as crew C to do the job. How long would it take crews B, and C if each worked alone?
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Question 697442: if 1/2 gallon of paint covers 1/6 of wall, then how much paint is needed for the entire wall
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Question 697659: Hi,
two rats eat 2 pieces of cheese in 2 minutes, how many rats will eat 6 pieces in 6 minutes, kindly advise.
regards
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Question 697994: How many mL of a 67% solution should be added to make the solution 72% alcohol?
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Question 698036: It takes Andrew 4 hours to clean 12 cars. Each car takes the same time. How long does it take him t clean 1 car? How does it take him to clean 18 cars?
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Question 698103: A and B working together can complete a job in 7 1/2 hours. Working alone, A takes 8 hours longer than B to do the job. How long would it take each working alone?
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Question 698180: if 1/2 gallon of paint covers 1/6 of a wall, then how much paint is needed for the entire wall?
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Question 698256: Tom can sort 280 nails in 2 hours and jerry can sort 120 nails in 3 hours how long will it take them to both sort 700 nails
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Question 698256: Tom can sort 280 nails in 2 hours and jerry can sort 120 nails in 3 hours how long will it take them to both sort 700 nails
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Question 698538: If Mohan can do the work in 20 days and Aman can do the same work in 30 days then find
in how many days both will do the same work ?
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Question 698488: a rectangle pool 18m by 10m is being filled at the rate of 0.6 m^3/min. How fast is the height h of the water rising?
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Question 698556: A father can do a job in a certain cumber of hours. His son takes twice as long as to do the job. Working together, they can do the job in 6 hours. How many hours does it take the father to do the job alone?

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Question 698703: Can you please answer this problem and explain,
susan can do her assignment in 2 days what is her rate?

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Question 698702: A man travels 12 miles in 2 1/4 hours, part of the time at 9 miles per hour and rest at 3 1/2 miles per hour. how far did he travel at the faster speed?

(Topic where this question comes from is simultaneous equations)
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Question 698983: A machine can make 20 parts in 5 minutes. How long will it take the machine to make 30 parts
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Question 699176: I need help with a word problem.- A mad scientist develops a formula which can turn a light bulb into a camel.Working alone,it takes the scientist 4 hours to create one dose of formula.The mad scientist's slightly mad assistant Igor can make one dose in 12 hours.How long,working together,will it take the mad scientist and Igor to create one dose of formula? Answer the question by using a table and the 5-step method.Show a check of your work.
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Question 699213: you have paid $220.00 for 2 men and they worked 1.5 hours. How much an hour did they make?
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Question 699386: One pipe can fill a tank in 2 hours. A second pipe can fill it in 1.75 hours. How long will it take to fill the tank with both pipes open?
Thank you so much
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Question 699473: A running track 5 m wide goes around a soccer field that is twice as long as it is wide. At each end of the soccer field the track is a semi-circle with inner radius r. Find a formula for the area of the tracks in terms pi and r
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Question 699671:

it is 1:40. what time will it be in 5 hours and 20 minutes?
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Question 700854: Bob paints a house in 3 hours. Charlie paints a house in 5 hrs. How long would it take for them to paint it together ?
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Question 700879: Joe and Moe can mow the lawn in 33 minutes together. If Moe works 2 times faster than Joe, how fast does Joe work alone?
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Question 701342: If it takes 2 people 4 hours to complete 1 job, with 1 person working 1.5 times faster than the other. How many hours will it take the faster person to complete 1 job.
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Question 701451: if it takes 6 hours for 5 girls to paint a fence how many hours will it take 7 girls working at the same rate of speed to paint the same fence
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Question 701631: jack has 3 hours of homework. He will take one 30 minute brake. To finish by 9:00pm what is the latest time he can begin his homework?
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Question 701834: 7 men can put a fence in 8 hours. if one man fall ill, how many overtime hours will the remaining men need to put up the same fence?
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Question 701974: Five workers install a pipe in 15 hours. How long will it take 9 workers to install the same pipe at the same rate?
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