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Question 840515: Olive has a report to type which is 10,000 words long. She can type at an
average speed of 50 words per minute. Her friend George can type at 60 words
per minute. She gives George 3/5 of the report to type while she types the
remainder. How long will it take now to type the report?
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Question 840615: Jared can deliver papers three times as fast as Kevin can. If they work together, it takes them 1 hour. How long would it take each to deliver the papers alone? Step by step answer please and thank you.
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Question 840616: Jared can deliver papers three times as fast as Kevin can. If they work together, it takes them 1 hour. How long would it take each to deliver the papers alone? Step by step answer please and thank you.
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Question 840925: Question 1)5 men are hired to complete a job.If one more man is hired, the job can be completed 8 days earlier.Assuming that all the men work at the same rate, How many more men should be hired so that the job can be completed 28 days earlier?
Question 2)It is given that z is directly proportional to x2 and inversely proportional to √y
i)Write down an equation connecting x, y and z
ii) if z = 16 when x = 2 and y = 9 ,find the value of z when x =5 and y =4
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Question 840374: Bob can paint a small house in 8 hours. Joe could paint the same size house in 10 hours. On Friday, Bob started painting the house by himself. he had to leave after 2 hours and was replaced by Joe. How long did it take joe to finish painting?
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Question 841342: It takes 2hours and 10minutes to mow the yard. It takes 30 minutes longer to mow the front yard than the back. How long does it take to mow the front yard?
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Question 840601: A tank can be filled with 2 pipes in 6 minutes while the first pipe alone would require 10 minutes. How long will it take for the second pipe alone to fill the tank?
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Question 840361: Aileen and Emily are roommates. Working together, it takes the 45 minutes to clean their room. Today is Aileen's day to clean. She can clean the room by herself in 2/3 the time it takes Emily to clean the room by herself. How many minutes does it take Aileen to clean by herself? How many minutes does it take Emily?
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Question 841353: If it takes John 10 hours to paint the fence, How long will it take John and his 2 friends to do the job if they work at the same rate ?
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Question 840365: How long is one side of a cube box that has a side area of 16x^2-8x+1
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Question 841522: A can do a piece of work in 10 days. If A and B work together they can finish it in 6 days. find the work left in B alone will finish the work
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Question 841532: pump A can fill a pool in 11 hrs and pump B can empty the same pool in 4 hrs. accidentally, both the pumps started at the same time. how long it will take to empty the pool?
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Question 841564: Elisa can complete a typing job in 6 hours. She was given a helper and together they finish the job in only 4 hours. How long would it take the helper had he worked alone?
EQUATION: 4/6+4/t=1
Thanks
-Mark
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Question 841586: The 12th term of an arithmetic sequence is 35. The 7th term is four times the 2nd term. Find the nth term of the sequence?
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Question 841580: George can paint a room alone in six hours .George starts painting at 10:00 AM. Ed joins George at 11:00 AM and two men continue painting until the room is completed. At what time will they finish painting the room ?
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Question 841655: A brick layer can build a wall in 6 hours, and his apprentice would need 16 hours to build the same wall. When they work together, the apprentice works 5 hours longer than the brick layer. How many hours does each work?
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Question 841781: it takes 6 minute to cut a pipe into 2 pieces .How long will it teke to cut it into 5 pieces?
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Question 841848: A bath tub can be filled in 8 minutes but it takes the tub 12 minutes to drain. If the tub has the faucet on and the drain open, how long will it take to fill?
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Question 842052: Find all values of h for which for which the quadratic equation has two real solutions
5x^2-3x-h=0
write your answer as an equality or inequality in terms of h.
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Question 842063: How much time will robert need to pack 41 containers if he packs each container in 28 minutes
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Question 842173: a basketball player converted 32% of the shots from the 3 point area.how many shots did he attempt if he converted 8 shots?
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Question 842439: 12 x 1/3

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Question 842705: how long will it take 8 workers to complete a job that took 5 workers to complete in 10 days
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Question 843063: women can do a piece of work in 18 days. How many women would be required to do the same work in 21 days ?
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Question 843124: If three persons take 30 hours to complete a report, how long will it take for one person to complete the report?
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Question 843129: If 10 people take 1 hour to complete the construction of a wall then how many people are required complete the same wall in 450 seconds?
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Question 843473: Marco Lorenzo, a gardener, can mow a lawn in 3 hours. After 2 hours, it rained and he stopped mowing the lawn. In the afternoon, Alice Tina, completed the rest of the work in one hour and 30 minutes. How long would it take Alice Tina to mow the lawn by herself? ( answer is 2 hours and 22 minutes - show your solution )
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Question 843347: Working together, two assembly lines can complete an order in 18 hours. Working alone the older assembly line would take 15 hours longer than the newer line to complete the order. How many hours would it take the newer assembly line to complete the order working alone?
I know i have to somehow work in reverse I'm just not even sure how to do that.
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Question 843338: Mary can work word problems twice as fast as Tara. If they work on a mathematics assignment as a team, it takes two hours to finish the assignment. How long would it have taken Mary alone to do the assignment?

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Question 843332: If Al can paint a room in 20 hours, and Bill can paint a room in 30 hours, how long will it take to paint a room if they work together?
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Question 842816: 6 men can paint a house in 8 days. How long would 4 men take?
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Question 842618: If 1200 persons can finish the construction of a building in 40 days, how many persons are needed for the construction of the building in 24 days?
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Question 841031: 1. (a) If 5/8 of a room can be painted in 1 hour, what is the rate of work of the room per hour?
(b) At the same rate, how long will it take to paint the entire room?
2) One grocery clark can stock a shelf in 25 min. A second clerk requires 20 minutes to stock the same shelf. How long would it take to stock the shelf if the two clerks worked together? Solve for minutes.
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Question 841269: It would take an qpprentice house painter 1.5 h longer than his supervisor to paint an apartment. If they work together, they can complete the job in 4 h.
About how long would it take the apprentice to complete the job working alone? Round your answer to the nearest tenth of an hour.
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Question 842322: Two chefs are preparing a banquet. One chef could prepare the banquet in 2 hour less time than the other. Together, they complete the job in 5 hours. How long would it take the faster chef working alone?"

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Question 840067: Which of these pipes will
empty a pool the fastest?
1.One pipe of diameter 60 cm.
2.Two pipes of diameter 30 cm each.
3.Three pipes of diameter 20 cm each.
Please explain
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Question 839661: A school's new pump can fill a swimming pool in 5 hours the old pump takes 10 hours. How many hours will it take to fill the pool if both pumps are used?
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Question 839596: A, B, & C can do a piece of work in 10, 9, 15 days respectively. They started the work together but C left after 2 days. In how many days will the remaining work be completed by A & B?
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Question 839592: P, Q, R together can build a house in 8 days. P & Q can build the house separately in 20 days & 24 days respectively. In how many days can R build the house alone?
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Question 843621: Lisa started cleaning at PM and finished at PM .
How long did it take her? Give your answer in minutes.
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Question 843880: Working together, Tanner and Joel can grade their students' projects in 2 hours. Working alone, it would take Tanner 2 hours longer than it would take Joel to grade the projects. How long would it take Joel, working alone, to grade the projects?
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Question 844029: if 6 men take 3 days to dig 8 ditches, then how long would it take for 4 men to dig 10 ditches?
i tried doing 8 ditches x (18men per day) divided by 10 ditches = 14.4 men per ditch but i don't know where i went wrong.
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