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Question 944554: Suppose you can type 10 pages in 25 minutes. How long will it take you to type 105 pages? How many pages can you type in 1 hour and 10 minutes?
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Question 944677: Billy and bobby can mow the lawn in 65 minutes together. Billy can mow the lawn alone in 30 minutes less than it would take bobby. How long would it take for bobby to mow the lawn alone?
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Question 944770: One pipe can fill a tank in 6 hours and another pipe can fill the same tank in 3 hours. A drain pipe can empty the tank in 24 hours. With all the pipes open, how long will it take to fill the tank?
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Question 944777: Noni can paint his garage in 3 1/2 hours while his friend Anton can paint it in 4 hours, if they work together, how long would it take them to finish the job?
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Question 944867: How many science questions can Isaac solve in 1 1/2 hours if it takes him 1/6 of an hour to answer each question?

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Question 944887: if the electrican work 3 1/2 hour, how much is his bill

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Question 945013: If josh can paint a house in one hour, and Noah can paint the same house in three hours. How long will it take them to paint the house together? Justify your answer. (This is the exact question we were asked, I need a formula for it please)
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Question 945014: Phyllis can rake our lawn in 50 minutes and I can do it in 40 minutes. If she rakes for five minutes before I join her, how long will take for us to finish?
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Question 945241: Okay, I really just need an equation to understand this;
Jessica mixed 5 oz of soil containing 26% clay with 6oz of soil with 14% clay. What is the content of the mixture?
Also... Nancy mixed 10 L of cranberry juice into 13 L of apple juice, that had 50% sugar content. If the cranapple mixture is 42% sugar! what was the percent of sugar in the cranberry juice?
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Question 945254: if lew and sue agree on a schedule for cleaning their rooms.lew will clean once every 3 days and sue will clean once every 5 days.they both clean their rooms on saturday,april1.what is the next day they will clean on the same day?what number do u cricle for lew and sue

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Question 945271: if a machine can produce 85 parts in 40 minutes, how many parts can it produce in 8 hours?
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Question 945325: a hose needs 6 hours to fill a swimming pool. another hose needs 3 hours more to fill the pool then the 2 hoses combined. how long does it take the second hose to fill a swimming pool.
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Question 945353: Ed is walking home from the library. After 3 minutes, he has walked 288 yards. Use the points (0,0) and (3,288) to find the rate Ed is walking. Write you final answer is Yards per minute.
How do I find the rate?
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Question 945405: 8 taps having the same rate of flow can fill a tank in 27 minutes. If two taps go out of order, then the time taken by the remaining taps to fill the tank will be______
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Question 945665: joe can paint the barn in 11 hours by himself. Steve has never timed himself painting a barn before so we don't know how fast he can complete the job. Working together, the two finish the job in 7 hours. How long would it take steve to paint the barn alone?
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Question 945637: Paul can paint a room two times as fast a Jamie. Working together they can paint the room in three hours. How long would it take each of them to paint the room alone?
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Question 945718: I have a tank that is filling 200 gpm, currently the tank holds 125000 gallons if I am pumping 235 gpm how long till I empty the tank?
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Question 945744: one pump fills a tank 5 times as fast as another pump. if the pump work together, they fill the tank in 30 minutes. How long does it take for each pump to fill the tank
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Question 945969: Sally can fold 15 bed sheets in 4 minutes. Eric can fold 12 bed sheets in 5 minutes. Jane can fold 7 bed sheets in 2 minutes.

How long would it take all three to fold 386 bed sheets?

a. 20 minutes

b. 35 minutes

c. 37 minutes

d. 40 minutes
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Question 945758: officils begin to empty a man made lake at a rate that wouldempty the lake in 18 weeks but a river that can fill the lake in 30 weeks is replenishing the lake at the same time, how long would it take to empty the lake
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Question 946497: it takes 1 person 4500 minutes to take down the seats, how many people will they need to do it in 6 hours?
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Question 946486: 25 workers are needed to build a house in 16 days. how many days will 28 wokers working at the same rate take to build the same house? inverse proportion question solve with unitary method

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Question 946533: Craig and Matt, working together can rake the yard in 8 hours. Working alone, Matt takes 4 times as long as Craig. How long does it take Craig to rake the yard alone?
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Question 946571: A large pipe takes 24 hours less to fill a tank than a smaller pipe. If both pipes are turned on it takes 16 hours to fill the tank. How many hours will each pipe take to fill the tank by itself?

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Question 946597: (4t-5)^2-10(4t-5)+21=0
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Question 946596: 2-6i/5+4i
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Question 946814: It takes 40 minutes for 7 people to paint 6 walls.
How many minutes does it take 4 people to paint 3 walls?

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Question 946901: Find the time for two people working together to complete half a task if it takes them 7 hours and 8 hours to complete the entire task working individually.
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Question 947130: M can do a piece of work in 4 hours, N and P together in 3 hours, and M and P together in 2 hours. How long will N alone take to do it?
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Question 947192: 5 pipes together can fill a 30 L water tank in 30 minutes. How many pipes are required to fill a 40 L water tank in 20 minutes?

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Question 947264: A painting job can be completed by 3 painters in 17 days. If 12 more painters join the team 2 days after starting work on the job, then how many more days are required to complete the job?
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Question 947348: If M men could do J jobs in 1 day, how many days would it take 5 fewer men to do K jobs?
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Question 947400: If johnny cam mow the the lawn in 10 hours and maria can do it in 8 hours how long will it take tham to do it together.
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Question 947524: How many persons can clean a area of 25904 sq.ft?
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Question 947848: For a certain bathtub, the hot water faucet can fill the tub in
13
minutes. The cold water faucet can fill the tub in
7
minutes. If both faucets are used together, how long will it take to fill the tub?
Do not do any rounding
can you help me answer this

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Question 947869: If 18 people write 52 pages of text on a computer in 30 minutes. How long does 22 people write 36 pages on the computer?
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Question 947903: A Certain Job Can Be Done By 8 Men In 20 Days. After 5 Days, 3 Men Left The Job. How Long Would It Take The Remaining Men To Finish The Job?

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Question 947872: Matt has an apple tree. Apple thieves steal that half of the apple on the tree on every night of the week (7 times). How many apples were qriginally on the tree, if there is only apple left on the tree after the thieve last raid?
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