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Question 825502: Formula to find time required to empty an oil tank through gear pump of 5 Hp .
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Question 813703: When a fraction of 12 is taken away from 17, what remains exceeds one-third of seventeen by six.
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Question 825584: If three people can do a job in 2 hours, work out how long it will take one person?
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Question 825584: If three people can do a job in 2 hours, work out how long it will take one person?
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Question 825495: A, B and C can build a tent in 3, 4 and 6 hours respectively. If all of them work together in building the tent and earn Rs.2700, what will be share of C?
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Question 825542: An executive secretary can finish a typing job in 10 hours while an ordinary employee can do the same job in 12 hours. How long will it take the two employees to finish the typing if they work together?
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Question 825647: when you solve rates such as it takes 5 people 8 hours to paint 6 walls, what is the formula?

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Question 825647: when you solve rates such as it takes 5 people 8 hours to paint 6 walls, what is the formula?

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Question 825725: An oatmeal company has two oatmeal packing machines. The first machine can fill a shipment of bags in 16 hours. The second machine can fill a shipment of bags in 13 hours. How many shipments will the two machines fill working together for 72 hours?
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Question 825793: x people working x hours produce x items. How many items are produced by y people working y hours?
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Question 825912: If John is pushing the classroom wall.Does he work?why?

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Question 826018: If it takes 64 men 15 days to complete a job, how many more men would be required to complete the work in 12 days?
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Question 826018: If it takes 64 men 15 days to complete a job, how many more men would be required to complete the work in 12 days?
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Question 825955: An executive secretary can finish a typing job in 10 hours while an ordinary employee can do the same job in 12 hours. How long will it take the two employees to finish the typing if they work together?
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Question 826414: A tank can be filled in 9 hours by one pipe and in 12 hours by another. How long will it take both pipes to fill the empty tank?
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Question 826493: A carpenter works on a job for 10 days and is joined by his helper. Together they finish the job in 6 more days. The helper could have done the job alone for 30 days. how long would it take the carpenter to do the job alone?
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Question 826624: Gregory painted 1/3 of a room in 3/4 hour. At this rate what fraction of the roomcan gregory pai.t in 1 hour?
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Question 826738: Which turtle had the faster time ?
1 3/7 or 1 2/5
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Question 826738: Which turtle had the faster time ?
1 3/7 or 1 2/5
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Question 826513: please help
Q) It take 15 days for 6 people to complete 10 projects, how many days 9 people will take to complete 14 projects, please tell me how to calculate
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Question 827737: Ted 40 minutes to paint a wall. Burt can paint the same wall in 30 minutes. How long will it take for the two of them to do the job together?
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Question 827832: Eric can mow one lawn each weekday after school and two lawns on Saturdays. Write an expression for the number of lawns he can mow in w weeks. If he earns $5 for each lawn mowed, write an expression for how much money he earns in w weeks.
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Question 827851: If 5 technicians can produce 64 surfboards in 4 days, how many surfboards can 8 technicians produce in 10 days?
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Question 827963: A 14.4 kg gas cylinder runs for 104 hours when the smaller burner on the gas stove is fully opened while it runs for 80 hours when the larger burner on the gas stove is fully opened. What is the percentage difference in the usage of gas per hour, between the smaller and the larger burner?
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Question 828094: If 5 men can paint 26 houses within 3 days, how many houses can 15 men paint in 150 days
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Question 828043: A warehouse is 14 of an acre in area. If it houses 5 people, how much of an acre does each of them get?
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Question 828189: a b and c working together complete a job in 18 days. A and B together work twice as much as C; A and C together work thrice as much as B. A alone can finish the work in ?
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Question 828195: It takes 5 men to paint 2 identical houses in 3 days. Assuming that all men work at the same rate, how long will it take 10 men to paint 8 of these houses?
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Question 828252: working 5 hours daily, shashi can embroider 3 saries in 21 days. How long will it take for her to embroider 6 saries working 7 hours daily?
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Question 828258: Pipe A takes 20min to fill tank while pipe B Takes 30 min and pipe C Takes 40 min to empty it.if the all pipes work together...how many time it will take to fill tank..???
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Question 828243: hi! can u help me with these questions.? thank u!
(applications of the derivative)
1) after x weeks, the number of people(or population) living in a communitty is given by the function f(x)=2x^2-4x+100 provided that x is less than or equal to 1.
a.) what is the average rate of change of the population from the second week (x=2) to the fifth week (x=5)?
b.) find the rate of change of the population after the second week.
2) During a flu epidemic, medical researchers found out that the number of people infected in x days is given by the function p(x)=15x^2-x^3 for 0 less than or equal to x less than or equal to 10.
a.) find the average rate of infection for the first seven days (from day 1 to day 7).
b,) what was the rate of infection after the fourth day?
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Question 828271: 10 men or 18 boys can do a piece of work in 15 days, in how many days will 25 men and 15 boys do the same pice of work?

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Question 828253: A tank is filled by a pipe in 18 hours and emptied by another pipe in 12 hours. How long will it take to empty the full tank if both the pipes are kept open simultaneously?
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Question 828251: Dinu and Hemu can plough a field in 15 days. If Dinu alone can plough 1/8 of the field in 5 days, how many days will hemu take to do the same work alone?
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Question 828248: Arpit can fence a garden in 3 hours, Ankur can do it in 5 hours and Aakash takes 6 hours to do the same. If they work together, in how many hours they can fence the garden?
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Question 828474: If it takes 8 men 9 hours to dig a hole in 20 minutes,how long would it take 10 men to dig a hole if they work at the same rate?
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Question 828539: It takes 30 people 60 working days to build a small bridge. How many people are needed if the bridge is to be built in 40 working days, assuming that they all work at the same rate.
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Question 828568: A and B can do a piece of work in 6 days, B and C can do it in 10 days and C and A do it in 15 days.
(a) In how many days will A, B and C finish it working together?
(b) In how many days will A and B finish their working alone?
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Question 828494: If it takes 8 men 9 hours to dig a hole in 20 meters deep,how long would it take 10 men to dig a hole if they work at the same rate?
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Question 829041: A pump can fill a swimming pool in 8 hours. Another lump can fill the same pool in 9 hours. How long will it take both pumps working together to fill the pool?
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Question 828978: a tank is filled with 500 litres of water. Due to a leakage in the tank the quantity of water changes by 8 litres every hour. How long will it take for all the water to leak?
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Question 829257: Alex paints 1/2 of a wall 6 feet by 9 feet in 1/5 of an hour. Find the work rate. Alex paints at a rate of how many square feet per hour? Round to nearest tenth if necessary .
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Question 829267: A pool can hold 3000 gallons and is being filled at a rate of 15 gallons a minute. How long will it take to fill the pool?
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