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Question 883606: I only need this setup and the find statement, you do not have to solve the problem.
A man and his wife usually drink a keg of beer in 12 days. They found by frequent experience that when his wife was absent the man drank it in 20 days. In how many days will the wife alone drink it?
Set up: 1 keg of beer in 12 days�man and wife
1 keg of beer in 20 days �man alone
Find the number of days that it take the wife to drink 1 keg of beer alone.
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Question 883844: If 1 painter can paint 1 house in 4 days, how many houses can 6 painters, working at the same rate, paint in 2 days.
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Question 884193: Lindsay and Kimmie, working together, can balance the financials for the Kappa Kappa Gama sorority in 6days. Lindsay by herself can complete the job in 5days less than Kimmie. How long will it take Lindsay to complete the job by herself?
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Question 884276: (x-1)(x 1)

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Question 884276: (x-1)(x 1)

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Question 884284: 4 men and 10 women were put on a work. They completed 1/3 of the work in
4 days. After this 2 men and 2 women were increased. They completed 2/9
more of the work in 2 days. If the remaining work is to be completed in 3
days, then how many more women must be increased ?
The answer is 8. I need the solution.
Thank You.
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Question 883211: A tank has a leak which would empty it in 10 hrs. A tap is turned on and it admits 9 liters per minute into the tank and tank is now emptied in 25 hrs. How many liters tank holds
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Question 884386: A shirt manufacturer decides that he can supply 280 shirts in 4 weeks using 7 machinists. How long would it take 15 machinists to produce 1000 shirts?
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Question 884395: three workers can paint a house in 14 days. assuming that the workers work at the same rate, how many more workers need to be hired to finish painting the house 8 days earlier?
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Question 884529: I invest $175.00 for my tutor business. I charge $25.00 per hour. How many hours do I have to tutor to break even?
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Question 884577: It takes 30 minutes to empty a half-full tank by draining it at a constant rate. It is decided to simultaneously pump water into the half-full tank while draining it. What is the rate at which water has to be pumped in so that it gets fully filled in 10 minutes?
(A) 4 times the draining rate
(B) 3 times the draining rate
(C) 2.5 times the draining rate
(D) 2 times the draining rate
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Question 884653: If 3 copier machines can copy 300 sheets in 3 hours, assuming the same rate, how long (in hours) will it take 6 such copiers to copy 600 sheets?
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Question 884722: Marlo can dig a ditch in 2 hours and his daughter can dig the same size ditch in 4 hours ,working together how long will it take them to dig the ditch
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Question 884730: On her way home Gloria gave her friend one half of her candy. Next she met another friend and gave her one third of the candy she had left.Then she met another friend and gave him one half of the candy she had left. She had 9 pieces left.How many pieces did she start with?
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Question 884729: On her way home Gloria gave her friend one half of her candy. Next she met another friend and gave her one third of the candy she had left.Then she met another friend and gave him one half of the candy she had left. She had 9 pieces left.How many pieces did she start with?
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Question 884794: If Peter can build a sandbox five times as fast as Gene, and they can build a sandbox together in 5 hours, how long would it take each on them to build a sandbox alone?

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Question 884801: 28 men can complete a piece of work in 21 days. How many more men must be hired to complete the work in 14 days?
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Question 884727: On her way home from school Gloria met a friend and gave her one half of all her candy. Nezt she met another friend and gave him one half of all the. amdy she had left. She then had 9 pieces left. How many pieces did she start with?
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Question 884800: Computer A takes 3 minutes to process an input while computer B takes 4 minutes. If computers A , B and C can process an average of 15 inputs in one hour. How many minutes does computer C alone take to process one input?
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Question 885034: three people together can do certain job in three hours. Of one of them can the job in six hours and another can do it in ten hours, how long will the third person take do the job alone
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Question 883206: A can do a job in 5 hours at what rate must be B do the job so that working together, they can complete the job in 2 hours together
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Question 885099: Sally can paint a room in 7 hours while it takes Steve 6 hours to paint the same room. how long would it take them to paint the room if they worked together?
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Question 885105: if 2 people work at washing 5 cars and one can do all 5 on their own in 36 minutes and the other can do all 5 on their own in 42 minutes, how long does it take to wash all 5 working together?
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Question 885113: One tap can fill a bath in t minutes and a second tap can fill the bath in 2t minutes. What fraction of the bath is filled in 1 minute if both taps are turned on?
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Question 885275: Working together, two people can complete a task in 7 hours. Working alone, one person takes 2 hours longer than the other to complete the task. How long would it take for each person to complete the task? (Round your answers to one decimal place.)
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Question 885294: Pipe A fills a 100 gallon tub at a rate of 10 gallons a minute,
Pipe B fills the tub at a rate of 20 gallons a minute,
Hole C empties the tub at a rate of 5 gallons a minute,
how many minutes to fill the tub?
This question was in the movie "How Green Was My Valley"
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Question 885303: Tom can make 5 pizzas in 1 hour. Chris can make 7 pizzas in 2 hours. How long will it take (approximately) for Tom and Chris together to make 35 pizzas?
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Question 885414: If a crew of 9 workers can paint a house in 14 days. How long will it take a crew of 5 to complete the same job? Given that the rate of work is the same per worker.
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Question 885541: if you have 50 steel pipes and it takes you 7 minutes to cut a single piece how many hours will it take for you to cut all 50
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Question 885611: Lala and Baba can finish stacking 200 cups together in 12/5 hrs. One day, Baba stacked by herself. An hour later, Lala joined and they finished the job in 9/5 hrs. If Lala works alone and stacks all 200 cups, how many hours would it take her?
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Question 885652: A and B spice a work in 12 days B and C do this work in 15 daya A and C do this in 20 days ....a single can do this work in how many days

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Question 885626: .if 20 man can buigld a wall 112 meters long in 6 days,what length of similler wall can be built by 25 mans??
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Question 885806: An experienced accountant can balance the books twice as fast as a new accountant. Working together it takes the accountants 6 hours. How long would it take the experienced accountant working alone?
A) 15 hr
B) 12 hr
C) 9 hr
D) 3 hr
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Question 885861: Jane and Maria clean the house in 8 hours if they work together. the time that Jane takes in cleaning the house alone is 4 hours more than the time Maria takes in cleaning the same house. How long does it take Jane to clean the house alone? How about Maria?
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Question 885884: andrew can paint the house 6 times as fast as Bailey and together it takes them 7 days. How long does it take each of them alone
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Question 885908: Three computers can print out a task in 16 min, 24 min, and 48 min, respectively. How long would it take to complete the task with all three computers working?
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Question 885907: Two machines fill cereal boxes at the same rate. After the two machines work together for 7 h, one machine breaks down. The second machine requires 14 more hours to finish filling the boxes. How long would it have taken one of the machines, working alone, to fill the boxes?
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