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Question 778933: Pipe A can fill a tank in 7 hours more than pipe B can. If A is opened for as many hours as it would take B to fill a tank, B can complete the filling 5 hours. How long does it take each pipe, alone, to fill a tank?
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Question 778952: three men paint a house in 5 days.
how long will it take 2 men to paint the house
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Question 779623: 30 men can do a work in 36 days. After 30 days more men are employed and work is done 2 days before . Find no of more men employed?
Option are:18,15,16,14
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Question 779776: eight men can complete a job in 25 days. how many men will be needed to complete the job in 10 days
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Question 779948: If one painter can paint a house in 4 hours and another painter can paint a house in 3 hours. If they painted together, how long will it take for them to paint 2 houses?
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Question 780426: John and Terry are painting a house together. When working alone John can paint the house in 14 hours, if Terry is working alone he can paint this same house in 13 hours. How long will it take John and Terry to paint the house together? Give your answer in hours correct to 2 decimal places.
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Question 780901: terry can wash a floor in 1 hour, pat can wash it in 2 hours. working together, how long will it take them to wash the floor?
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Question 780897: A painter can paint a kitchen in 3 hours. An apprentice can paint the same kitchen in 6 hours. If they worked together, how long would it take them to paint the kitchen?
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Question 781052: HELP ME PLEASE!!!
Tom and Ben are roommates. It takes them 90 minutes to clean the house together. Tom takes twice as long as Ben to clean. If Tom has to clean alone, how long will it take him?
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Question 781310: (Time required to do a job) Two pumps are available for filling a gasoline storage tank. Pump A, used alone, can fill the tank in 3 hours, and pump B, used alone, can fill it in 4 hours. If both pumps are used simultaneously, how long will it take to fill the tank?
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Question 781372: Amanda has a swimming pool that is 20 feet by 20 feet by 8 feet. She is filling the pool using 3 garden hoses with a rate of flow of 1.5 cubic feet per minute.
A. How long will it take to fill the pool 3/4 of the way?
B. how long will it take to fill the pool completely if Amanda only uses 2 of the hoses?
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Question 781554: if 2 painters paint 2 rooms in 2 hours then how many painters will be required to paint 18rooms in 6hours ?
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Question 781615: Hey! If anyone could help me with this problem I would enjoy it!
Problem goes as..
Stefan can clean an attic in 16 hours. Ryan can clean the same attic in 10 hours. Find how long it would take them if they worked together?
I'm not as good with word problems. But I am getting a bit better. But this question I'm not really positive on how to set it up. If anyone could help me. Again I would really appreciate it! Kudos!

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Question 781647: Patrice, by himself, can paint a house in 10 hours. If he hires April to help, they can do the same job together in 6 hours. If he lets April work alone, how long will it take her to paint the same house?
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Question 781750: If 8 men, 6 women, and 12 boys do a job in 24 days of 9 hours,
in how many days of 8 hrs will 12 men, 15 women, & 10 boys do 3 times as much work,
supposing 2 women do as much as 5 boys &
1 man as much as 2 women?
I have worked on it and I finally came up with 50.5 days but I am not sure that that is the correct answer. Would appreciate knowing the correct answer.
Thanks

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Question 781963: A computer printer can print 10 pages per minute. Write an expression for the number of pages the printer can print in m minutes

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Question 781995: a tank can be filled by one pipe in 30 minutes and emptied by another in 50 minutes. if both pipes are open how long will it take to fill the tank?
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Question 782000: A car travels 20 kilometers per hour faster than a second car. The first car covers 180 kilometers in the same time the second car covers 135 kilometers. What is the average speed of each car?
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Question 781974: 6 workers can clean 40 cars in 4 days. How many workers would it take to clean all 40 cars in half of a day?
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Question 782048: jun and mike working together complete a job for 6 days, or they complete the job if jun works for 12 days and mike works for 3 days. how long would it take each man,alone to complete the job?
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Question 782299: how long will it take 3 pumps to empty a pool working together?
pump one can empty in 5days, pump two 7 days and pump three 4 days.
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Question 782510: It takes red 9 hours longer than Hannah to build a stone wall. Working together, they can build the wall in 20 hours. How long would it take each, working alone, to build the wall?
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Question 782518: If a new machine can make one toy in two hours and an old machine can make one toy in 5 hours how long would it take them to make one toy together?
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Question 783272: One pipe can fill a pool in 9 hours and another pipe can fill the same pool in 12 hours. To fill up the pool, only the first pipe was turned on. After three hours it broke down, and the second pipe was automatically turned on.
a) How many hours did it take to fill up the pool?
b) Hom many hours would it take to fill up the pool if the two pipes started to work together?
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Question 783271: if 3 writers can complete 160 books in 14 days.Then how many books can be completed by 8 writers in 5 days??
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Question 783441: if it takes 4 men to build a shed in 9 hours, how long will it take 6 men?
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Question 783352: Looking at the hands of his clock, Ernest realises that it has accumulated exactly one hour delay in exactly three days. At what time, starting from that moment, will the clock mark the right time again, if it keeps running at the same speed?
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Question 783645: 3 men build a house in 10 days . how long would it take 5 men
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Question 783796: One crew can seal a parking lot in 15 hours and another in 20 hours. How long will it take to seal the parking lot if the two crews work together?
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Question 783768: John can mow the lawn in three hours. Henry can mow the lawn in seven hours. If they work together how long will it take to mow the lawn?
And could you please show the work so it will help me understand.
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Question 783699: If you can read 33 pages in 25 minutes how many pages can you read in 1 hour?
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Question 784474: The first painter can finish a paint job in 3 hours. The second painter can finish the same job in 5 hours. How many hours would it take them to finish if they are working together at the same rates?
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Question 784493: A hydraulic pump supplies 30 litres/second. How long will it take to fill a 10 x 10 m tank that is 1 m deep?
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Question 784618: A group of men decided to do a job in 4days. but since 20 men dropped out everyday, the job completed at the end of the 7th day. How many men were there at the beginning?
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Question 784845: It takes 3 people 20 days to finish a job. How long will it take 4 people working at the same pace in a 6 day work week?
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Question 785108: 50 gallon bathtub contains 20 gallons of water and is filling up at a rate of 2.4 gal/min, you check the time every minute, on the minute. if the drain is closed when will you discover that the water is flowing over the top?

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Question 785149: A and B working together can finish a piece of work in 20 days. After working together for 4 days, A quits and B finishes the work in 24 days more. Find the number of days it requires each of them to do the work alone.
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Question 785140: if 2 men, 4 women and 2 boys can complete 10 hectare land in ten days then 4 men,6 women and 8 boys can complete 16 hectare land in how many days.if ratio of their efficiency men,women and boys is 5:4:2.
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Question 785262: A swimming pool is supplied with water through two pipes. When both pipes are used, the pool can be filled in 4,8 hours. The larger pipe alone will fill the pool in 4 hours less time than the smaller one. Find the time required for each pipe separately to fill the pool.
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Question 785296: 4 taps take 10 hours to fill. how long will 10 taps take

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Question 785323: It takes 4 men 6 hours to repair a road how long does it take 7 men?

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Question 785797: Joe can paint a room in 3 hours, fred can paint a room in 4 hours and Bill can paint a room in 6 hours. How long does it take them to paint a room togther?
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