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Question 749866: Sam can paint the house in 7 days by himself, while Betty can paint the same house in 42 days. How long would it take Sam and Betty to paint the house together?
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Question 749867: An engineer wants to make a 60% cement mixture. How many pounds of an 80% cement mixture must she mix with 14 pounds of a 50% mixture to create a 60% cement mixture?
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Question 749943: It takes 1 work day to repair 100m of road. At this rate how many work days will it take to repair 20km of road?
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Question 750212: If Sandy can decorate a cake in 2hr, what is her rate?
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Question 750378: A farmer can plow his field by himself in 15 days. If his son helps, they can do it in 6 days. How long would it take his sone to plow the field by himself
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Question 750400: ok here is my question, "one hose can fill a child's pool in 24min. A larger hose can fill the pool in 12 min. If the two hoses are used together, how long will it take to fill the pool?"
what I did and still got it wrong was 1/24+ 1/12 = 2/36 = 1/18 so i figured 18min but it cannot be possible if a single hose alone can fill it in 12 min
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Question 750421: an engineer traveled 165 miles by car and then an additional 660 miles by plane. the rate of the plane was four times the rate of the car. the total trip took 6 hours. find the rate of the car and plane.
the only thing i could think of was the distance formula but got stumped there.
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Question 750604: You and your friend have been hired to paint a room. It takes you 4 hours working alone to do the job. It takes your friend 5 hours working alone to do the job. How long would it take both of you to paint the room?
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Question 750637: A roofer requires 8 h to shingle a roof. After the roofer and an apprentice work on a roof for 2 h, the roofer moves on to another job. The apprentice requires 16 more hours to finish the job. How long would it take the apprentice, working alone, to do the job
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Question 751007: Sam can paint 2 square feet of fence 10 min. How long will it take him to paint a fence that is 6 feet high by 25 feet long?
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Question 751005: Can you please help me with this question... " Working alone, two people can clean their house in 3 hours and 6 hours. They have agreed to clean together so that they can finish in time to watch tv in 1 1/2 hours. How long will it take them to clean the house together? Can they finish before the program on tv starts?"
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Question 751214: two sanders working alone, one sands the floors for 8 hrs the other in 6 hours. How long would it take if they worked together?
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Question 751260: Pipe A can fill a tank in 3 hours. If pipe B can fill the same tank in 2 hours, how many minutes will it take both pipes to fill 2/3 of the tank?
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Question 751335: Jeremy and his dad can wash his car together in 40 minutes. Jeremy can wash it by himself in 70 minutes. How long would it take his dad to wash it by himself?
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Question 751337: Jeremy and his dad can wash his car together in 40 minutes, Jeremy can wash it by himself in 70 minutes. How long would it take his dad to wash it by himself?
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Question 751394: Pipe A can fill a tank in 4 hours. If pipe B works alone it will take 3 hours longer than if both pipes worked together. How long will pipe B take if it works alone?

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Question 740957: Ken mower can mow hi slawn in 20 minutes his son can do it in 12 minutes how long will it take if they do it together?

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Question 741180: Left on together, the cold and hot water faucets of a certain bathtub take minutes to fill the tub. If it takes the cold water faucet minutes to fill the tub by itself, how long will it take the hot water faucet to fill the tub on its own?
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Question 741182: It takes a smaller hose times as long to fill a small swimming pool as it does a larger hose. It takes both hoses working together minutes to fill the swimming pool. How long will it take the smaller hose to fill the pool by itself?
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Question 740546: Emily can paint her fence in 6 hours. If she does the job with her son, it take 2.5 hours less. How long would it take her son working alone.
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Question 751483: Two machines work together and complete work in 2 hours 24 minutes. If one machine works on its own it takes 2 hours longer than the other machine.How long does it take the slower machine to complete the work on its own??
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Question 751558: If BIll can clean the garage in 4 hours and John can clean the same garage in 3 hours, how many hours will it take them to clean the garage if they work together?
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Question 751591: a 225 gallon drum Is filled in 3 minutes. What is the rate in gallons per minute.
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Question 751392: Six builders worked 8 hours a day for 10 days to complete a job. If eight builders worked 6 hours a day for 3 days, the remaining work had to be completed by six builders in 8 days. How many hours did each builder have to work each day to complete the remaining of the job?

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Question 751778: George and Stanley are building a stone fence. They can complete the fence together in 8 hours, and George can complete it is 24 hours working alone. If they work together for 6 hours, then Stanley goes to the pub for a pint, how much longer must George work to finish the fence?
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Question 751923: Ali punted the ball 4 times in a football game. His longest kick was 45m and shortest kick was 27m. His average rate was 38m/punt. If the other two punts were of equal length.find the distance each travelled?
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Question 752192: If 6 men can do a work in 20 days and one man can do t he work f two boys then in how many days can 10 men and 5boys do the same work
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Question 752338: It takes 3 hours for John to mow the lawn. Linda can mow the same lawn for 5 hours. How long will it take Linda and John, work together, to mow the lawn?

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Question 752337: A swimming pool can be filled by one pipe in 4 hours and emptied by another in 5 hours. The water is allowed to run for 2 hours with both pipes open and then the outlet is closed. How long will it take the tank to fill
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Question 752357: suppose the average age of a passenger train car is 19.3 years. If the distribution of ages is normal and 10% of the cars are older than 22.2 years, find the standard deviation. please round your final answer to two decimal places.
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Question 752290: If 20 workers can complete a task in 12 hrs, how long will it take 30 workers?
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Question 752523: If one person digs a trench in 5 hours, and another person digs a trench in 6 hours, how many hours will it take both of them to dig one trench?
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Question 752621: A tap takes 6 hrs to fill a pond. Another tap takes 9hrs to fill the same pond. Together they fill the pond in 3hrs. How much is filled in 1hrs
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Question 752812: willy wanka's factory has a machine that can make 1000 chocolates in 5 hours.
A new machine was brought and it could make the same amount of chocolates in 3 hours.During the holiday rush both machines were used together to make 20000 chocolates how long would both machines have to make them?
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Question 753185: It take 6 men 24 days to build a wall. How many days will it take 8 men to build the same wall.

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Question 753454: If 6 machines take 4 hours to complete a task, how many machines does it take to complete the same task in 1 hour?
6/4= 2.5
2.5*6= 15
15 machines?

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Question 753494: 8 man can build a house in 18 days how many men will it take to finish it within 12 days
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Question 753880: Q:Thomas paints a house in 6 days. Joe paints the same house in 12 days. If both work together to paint the same house, how much time will they take?
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Question 753956: if julia reads 40 pages in 2 hours how long will it take to read 300 pages

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Question 753955: if angela reads 40 pages in 2 hours how long will it take to read 300 pages
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Question 754815: Mark can clean his fathers office in 30 min. His younger sister Lynn can clean the office in 40 min. How long will it take the two of them together to clean the office?
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Question 754763: One pump can drain a pool in 6 minutes. When a second pump is also used, the pool only takes 2 minutes to drain. How long would it take the second pump to drain the pool if it were the only
pump in use? (Round your answer to the nearest tenth, if necessary.)
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Question 754836: Karen can mow the lawn in 15 min. Her friend Kim can mow the lawn in 10 min. If they work together, how many minutes will they take to mow the lawn?
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