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Question 947922: An elementary school teacher can assemble and staple the weekly newsletter four times faster than her student aide. Working together, they can assemble and staple the letters in 8 minutes. How long would it take each, working alone, to complete the job?
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Question 947895: It takes a person 20 minutes to check a batch of 60 workers. An assistant can check the same batch in 30 minutes. How long should it take them working together?
Simplest format please.
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Question 948086: Ann made
$374
for
17
hours of work.
At the same rate, how much would she make for
12
hours of work?
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Question 948096: One month, John worked 2 hours less than Dawn, and Jennifer
worked 4 hours more than Dawn. Together they worked 196 hours.
How many hours did each work?
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Question 948161: You have 63 minutes to take an exam of 24 questions. After you finish the first 11 questions, you realize you must answer the remaining questions twice as fast to finish the exam. How many questions per minute were you answering? Answer in units of questions/ minute.
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Question 948265: if pump A empties a tank in 2 hours and pump B empties a tank in 4 hours how long will it take them to empty a tank if they work together
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Question 948304: At a local bakery, single-crust pies sell for $5.99 and double- crust pies sell for $9.99. The total number of pies sold on Monday was 25. If the sales total for Monday was $189.75 for these two types of pies, find the number of each type sold.
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Question 948440: Larry and Curly are trying to fill a sandbox with sand. Working alone, Larry can fill an empty
sandbox in 4 hours, and Curly can do the same job in 5 hours. Moe is trying to empty the
sandbox. Working alone, Moe can empty a full sandbox in 6 hours. If the sandbox is half
full at the time Larry and Curly begin filling the sandbox and Moe begins emptying it, how
many minutes will it take for the sandbox to be filled? Express your answer to the nearest
whole number.
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Question 948439: A vineyard�s grapes can be harvested by 10 workers in 5 hours. If one worker starts the
harvest at noon, and another worker joins the harvest each hour on the hour, at what time
will the harvest be completed?
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Question 948479: Tom and the Felix working together can paint 16 walls per hour.
Felix and the Sue can paint 18 walls between them in an hour.
Tom and the Sue can combine their labours to paint 10 walls per hour.
132 walls need to be painted, so how long would it take to accomplish this if all three worked together?
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Question 948510: a pump can deliver 3/8 liter of water per second. how long will it take to pump 48 liters ?
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Question 948532: A student reads 3⁄5 of a book in 30 minutes. How much of the book will be read, if the student reads at the same speed for 40 minutes?

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Question 948915: At a pie eating contest, Nolan can steadily eat a pie every 2 minutes. Brandyn is a little slower; at his steady pace, he can eat one every 2.5 minutes. How long will it take the team of Nolan and Brandyn to polish off a table of 12 pies?
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Question 948826: A and B can do a work in 12 days and 20 days.A works alone for 4 days and then B joins to help.in how many days will they finish the job?
ans- A in 1 day = 1/12
B in 1 day = 1/20
A alone works for 4 days
therefore in 4 days A'work = 4*1/20= 1/5
Remaining work 4/5
then B joins......
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Question 948828: if 6 men and 8 women earn Rs.960 in a day, then find how much will 14 men and 22 women can earn in a day
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Question 949015: a boat can travel 48 mph in still water. If it travels 486 miles with the current in the same length of time it travels 378 miles against the current, what is the speed of the current?
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Question 949146: how many pages will print in an hour if 19 pages print per min
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Question 949206: it takes 63 minutes for 4 people to paint 7 walls
How many does it take for 5 people to paint 10 walls?
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Question 949370: BILL CAN PAINT A HOUSE IN 2 DAYS, GEORGE CAN PAINT THE SAME HOUSE IN 3 DAYS, AND JEFF WILL TAKE 5 DAYS. HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE IF ALL 3 WORK TOGETHER?
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Question 949398: If it takes 10 people 3 hours to pick 2000 apples, how long would it take 12 people to do the same work? How much total time is saved?
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Question 949385: Three persons are painters they r A:B:C. A and B doing a work 24 days. Same work B and C doing 30 days .A and C Doing that work with 40 days. que: Then If do that work C only .how many days take to finish that work
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Question 949418: five people working 8 hours a day can cut drain in 6 days. how many days will four people working 6 hours a day require for the same task
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Question 949501: The time to do a certain job varies inversely as the
number N of people working. It takes 5 hr for 24 people
to wash and wax the floors in a building. How long
would it take 36 people to do the job?

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Question 949544: How do I write an algebra equation for this kiln firing? The kiln fired to 1830 degrees at a rate of 325 degrees an hr. I know I divide and I got 5.6...., BUT my kiln actually shut off after 4 hr. 39 minutes??
I used to be good in algebra, but I'm not remembering how to write the equations. Thanks!

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Question 949656: Working for 8 hrs daily, 40 men can complete in 21 days. Working for 10 hrs daily, If the work has to be finished in 14 days, how many men are needed to do the same work?
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Question 949811: Bill fills his pool at a rate of 30 gallons per hour. What is his equation
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Question 949827: Officials begin to release water from a full man-made lake at a rate that would empty the lake in 6 weeks, but a river that can fill the lake in 20 weeks is replenishing the lake at the same time. How long does it take to empty the lake? Express your answer as a fraction reduced to lowest terms, if needed.
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Question 949989: Working together, Carmel and Menchie can encode a document in 3 hours. Working alone, Menchie can do the job in 7 hours. How long does it takes Carmel to do the job working alone?
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Question 950250: The members of the theatre club were assessed equally to raise $400 for the purchase of new costumes. When four more people joined the club, the per member assessment was reduced by $5.00. What was the size of the club?
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Question 950265: if 4 men work for 6 hours a day for 3 days to dig a hole. how long will it take 12 men to dig the same hole
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Question 950277: It takes Ralph 8 hours to paint a fence alone. Lisa can do the same job in 11 hours. If Ralph paints alone for 35 minutes before Lisa begins helping, how long must they work together to finish painting the fence? Give your answer as a simplified fraction.

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Question 950682: six tapes fill a empty cistern in 8 hours. How much more time will be taken if two tapes go out of orders. Assume all the tapes supply water at the same rate.
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Question 950828: If 2 men can plow 6 acres of land in 4 hours, how many men are needed to plow 18 acres in 8 hours?
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Question 950908: A painting project will take a total of 360 person days to complete. How many days will it take to complete the project if 30 people work on the project? If the project must be completed in 10 days how many people must be employed?
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Question 950878: Samantha is starting a task that takes 3/5 of an hour to complete, but she only has 1/2 of an hour to work on it. If she works at an even pace, determine what fraction of the task will she complete.
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Question 951005: An inlet pipe on a swimming pool can be used to fill the pool in 10 hours. The drain pipe can be used to empty the pool in 30 hours. If the pool is 15 filled and then the inlet pipe and drain pipe are opened, how long from that time will it take to fill the pool?
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Question 951015: if three machines can complete a job in 8 hours, 5 hours, and 4 hours respectively, when they work alone, how long will it take the three working together to complete the job
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Question 950992: Benny and Melanie were able to clean the basement in 4 hours together. It takes Melanie 10 hours to finish this job alone. Without help, how long would it take Benny to finish this job?
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Question 951162: All members of a crew work at the same pace. If only 4 of them are working, they complete a job in 27 days. How many days will it take all 9 members of the crew to complete this job?
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Question 951355: If I worked 75 days for 40 minutes a day, how many hours would I have worked?
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Question 951405: If one door takes 2.5 hours to paint.
How many doors (0.???) are painted in one hour?
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Question 951384: Please help !
It takes Ralph 14 hours to paint a fence alone. Lisa can do the same job in 17 hours. If Ralph paints alone for 45 minutes before Lisa begins helping, how long must they work together to finish painting the fence? Give your answer as a simplified fraction.
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