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Question 981123: a copy machine can duplicate 3200 copies in one hour.how many copirs can it make per minute?
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Question 981198: Please help me solve this problem: If 18 men take 10 hours to build a wall, how manu hours would 10 men take? I think the answer is 18 hours. Please explain this question to me.
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Question 981461: Printer A takes 5 hours to print5000 copies . Printer B takes 8 hours to print 5000 copies . If both printers will continue to work at the rates given above , how long will it take him to print 10000 copies using the two printers working together ? Give your answer to the nearest minute .
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Question 981524: a job is expected to take 8 days if 6 persons are employed. how long would it continue if 2 more persons are engaged.

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Question 981556: Tom and Jane can clean the house together in 4 hours. When Tom works alone, it takes him an hour longer than it takes Jane alone. How long does it take Tom to clean the house alone?
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Question 981606: If sara can read 15 pages in 10 minutes, how long will it take her to read 45 pages
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Question 981631: Suppose that the time it takes for Andrew, Betty, or Carol to paint a garage working alone is A, B, or C hours respectively, where A,B,and C are positive integers. If they paint the garage together in 1 hour and 15 minutes, then what are the possible values of A,B, and C?
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Question 981664: 15 men plough a land in 14 days working 12 hours daily.How many days will be taken by 21 men to plough the same land, working 10 hours daily?
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Question 981521: Sean takes 2 hours to paint a room . Frank takes double the time to paint the same room .
1) What fraction of the room does Sean paint in an hour ?
2) What fraction of the room does Frank paint in an hour ?
3) How long does it take Sean and Frank working together to psint this room ?
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Question 936899: If 12 men and 18 Women can do a piece of work in 14 days .
In how many days 8 men and 12 women can do the same piece of work?
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Question 982009: An actress has to be on set, which is 21 miles away at 7am. If she wakes up at 5:30 am and does her make up for 48 minutes, how fast must she drive to get on to work on time? * step by step method please! THX!
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Question 982127: 5 people take 5 hrs to load 5 trucks.
For two people to load one truck, how long will it take?
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Question 982127: 5 people take 5 hrs to load 5 trucks.
For two people to load one truck, how long will it take?
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Question 982241: If jenna cleans her house in 4 hours and jodi,her daughter,cleans the house in 6 hours, how long will it talke for them to clean the house together?
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Question 982238: Pete can do a piece of work in 6 hours less time than Rick. Together, they can do the work in 9 hours and 12 minutes. How long will each take while working alone?
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Question 982505: Aira can do a job in 4 hours and Queenie can do the same in 9 hours. They start working together. After 2 hours, Queenie leaves and Aira finishes the job alone. How many hours did Aira take to finish the job alone?
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Question 982729: it takes an experienced clerk 9 days to process the mailing of annual forms it takes a new clerk 14 days how long will it take if they worked together?
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Question 982980: Ron can mow the lawn two hours more time than Paul. Working together they can mow the lawn in 6 hours. How long does it take each of them working alone? Round your answer to the nearest tenth of an hour if necessary.
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Question 983055: A tap can fill a tank of 500 litre in 3 hours 30 minutes.In how much time it will fill 1/2 of the tank? Please give this question answer as soon as possible.
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Question 983048: If I can do one work in 3 minutes then how much work can I do in 120 minutes?
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Question 983116: It takes 54 minutes for 10 people to paint 9 walls. How many minutes does it take 5 people to paint 10 walls?
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Question 983116: It takes 54 minutes for 10 people to paint 9 walls. How many minutes does it take 5 people to paint 10 walls?
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Question 983255: A worker at a paper factory can process 7/8 of a kilogram of paper product every 1/5 of an hour. What is the workers speed in terms of kilograms per hour?
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Question 983282: the times required for two students to paint a square yard of the floor of their dorm room differ by 1 min. together the can paint 27 square yard in 1 hour. how long does it take each to paint 1 square yard?
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Question 983396: If two painters can paint 2 rooms in 2 hrs, how painters would it take to paint 18 rooms in 6 hrs
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Question 983536: You average 3.6 calls per half hour yesterday. And another agent took ? Calls in 7.5 hours yesterday. What is ? calls
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Question 983666: what fraction of the house can Tim paint in d days? if he can paint a house in 6 days

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Question 983609: Sandy can complete her paper route in 45 min. When her sister Kris helps her. it takes them 18 min to complete the route. How long would it take Kris alone to complete the route?
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Question 983760: Ajay alone would take 8 hours more to complete the job if ajay and Rupesh work together.If Rupesh work alone he would have take 4.5 hours more to complete the job than Ajay and Rupesh work together. What time would have take if both Ajay and Rupesh work together. ??
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Question 983773: 12 men can complete a work in ten days. 20 women can complete the same work in twelve days. 8 men
and 4 women started working and after nine days 10 more women joined them. How many days will they
now take to complete the remaining work?
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Question 983821: Please help me solve this work problem:
Carmine can do her assignment in x hours. what part of the job can she complete after 2 hours
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Question 983843: Glenn can paint a room in five hours . His father can do it in four hours. How long will it take if they work together
Please help me solve this thankyouuuu
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Question 984161: if 9 men can do a piece of work for 20 days, how long would it take 4 men to do do, working at the same rate?

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Question 984235: Rate of Descent. A plane descends to sea level from 12,000 ft after being airborne for 1 1/2 hr. The entire flight time is 2 hr 10 min. Determine the average rate of descent of the plane.
Book's answer is 300ft/min. I tried several methods but couldn't get 300ft/min for my answer. Please help.
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Question 984394: One day Larry decided to go fishing in the back country. He rode his bike 14 miles and then walked the last 5 miles. If it took him 3 hours all together and his bike speed was twice his walking speed, how fast did he walk in miles per hour?
The answer given is 4 mph. How do you get this? Thanks
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Question 984393: Alonzo can clean up a restaurant he works at in 4 hours. Together Alonzo and Tim can clean up the restaurant in one and one-half hours. How long would it take Tim to clean up the restaurant alone?
The answer given is 2 2/5 hours. How do you get this answer? Thanks
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Question 984558: If one man cuts a load of wood in 6 hours and another cuts a load of wood in 5 hours how much wood can both men cut together
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Question 984471: Workman A's rate of doing work is twice that of Workman B's. One day, A & B work together for 8 hrs, then B due to injury stops and A finishes the rest of the job in 2 hrs. How long would it take B to complete the job alone?
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