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Question 1003713: If 2 inlet pipes can fill a pool in one hour and 30 minutes, and one pipe can fill the pool in two hours and 30 minutes on its own. How long would the other pipe take to fill the pool on its own?
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Question 1003714: Bob can paint a fence in 5 hours, and working with Jen, the two of them painted the fence in 2 hours. How long would it have taken Jen to paint the fence alone?
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Question 1003642: 10 men can dig a piece of land in 12days. How many more men are required to dig it for 4days?
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Question 1003643: A crew of men takes 1 hour 45min. to complete a job. How many jobs can it complete in 4 1/2days? (assume an 8 hour working day.)
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Question 1003854: deez nuts is how large if it fits 89 women

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Question 1004200: if tommy worked 24 hours how much would he make?

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Question 1004209: Two men dig a trench 30 m long in 3 days. How long would it take 3 men to dig a trench 15 m long working at the same rate?
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Question 1004262: Eight elves can pack 12 boxes in 30 minutes how long would it take for six elves to pack 24 boxes?
8 divided by 12 is 1.5 boxes per elf...
Then I get stuck
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Question 1004647: Pipe A can ﬁll a tank in 3 minutes, whereas B can ﬁll it in 4 minutes. How long would it take both pipes, working together, to ﬁll it?

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Question 1004617: If someone works 40 minutes for 81 days how many hours have they worked ?
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Question 1004737: You can do one half of a job in an hour your friend can do one third of the same job in an hour how long will it take to do the job if you work together
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Question 1005044: mary can wash her car in 40 minutes. TIna can wash the car in 25 minutes. How long will it take to wash the car if both girls work together on the task
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Question 1005094: Question no.106417
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Question 1005304: A beverage producer makes two products, Orange Drink, containing 10% orange juice, and Orange Delight, containing 50% orange juice. How many gallons of Orange Delight must be mixed with 300 gallons of Orange Drink to create a new product containing 40% orange juice?
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Question 1005572: Two painters, Jane and Jesse, working together paint a certain room in 3 hours. If it takes Jesse, working alone, 8 hours to paint the room, how long would it take Jane to paint the same room all by herself?
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Question 1005585: a plane flies 630 miles with the wind in the same time that it takes to fly 455 miles against the wind. if this plane flies at the rate of 217 mph in still air what is the speed of the wind?
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Question 1005589: A beverage producer makes two products, Orange Drink, containing 10% orange juice, and Orange Delight, containing 50% orange juice. How many gallons of Orange Delight must be mixed with 300 gallons of Orange Drink to create a new product containing 40% orange juice?
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Question 1005714: it takes 30 hours to fill a swimming pool using 4 pumps, how many hours would it take if used 5 pumps?
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Question 1005711: Translation and determine the number . The sum of 4 times a number and 3 is 27.
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Question 1005709: A 20 page paper took 34 hours to write. What is the rate of hours to pages ?
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Question 1005709: A 20 page paper took 34 hours to write. What is the rate of hours to pages ?
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Question 1005544: a serving of fish is generally 1/2 of a pound. How many servings can be prepared from 18 3/4 pounds of fish?
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Question 1005781: A full water tank holds 400 gallons of water. Tom Ato uses the water tank to wash his car. After 8.2 minutes 359 gallons remain in the tank. Tom finishes washing his car and turns the water at the 13 minute mark.
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Question 1005926: Robin can clean 72 rooms in 6 days.
How many rooms can Robin clean in 9 days?
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Question 1005953: two pumps working together can fill a tank in 2 hours. working alone the first pump can fill the tanks in 3 fewer hours than the 2nd pump. how long will it take the second pump to fill the tank?
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Question 1006002: Isabella painted her bedroom. she used 2 gallons of painted and finished in 8 hours.
Part A. A what rate did Isabella paint her room
Part B. How many gallons of paint per hr. did she use. Explain how you got your answer.
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Question 1006200: Bill wants to fill his pool up. A fire hose sprays 13.5 times per minute faster than a garden hose. If the fire hose and garden hose combined fill the pool in 107 minutes, how long would it take for the garden hose alone to fill the pool?
13.5x + x = 107
X=107/14.5
But I know this is incorrect and I cannot seem to figure it out.
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Question 1006218: 14 Masons can be build a wall 12 meters high in 12 days.How many masons will be needed to build a wall 120 meter high in 7 days?
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Question 1006472: Tom can whitewash 2/3 of Aunt Polly's fence in 3 hours. Huck can whitewash 1/3 of the fence in 2 hours. If they work together, a) exactly how long will it take Tom and Huck to whitewash Aunt Polly's fence? b) What portion of the fence will Huck have whitewashed?
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Question 1006497: A car is marked at Rs. 50,000. The dealer give 5% discount on first Rs.20,000 and 2% discount on the remaining Rs.30,000. Totel discount
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Question 1006499: A boat travels between tho towns along a river. It travels 18 km upstream and back in a total time of 2 hours 10 minutes. Find the difference of the time taken to travel upstream and downstream.
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Question 1006498: A cistern can be filled by two pipes. The small pipe alone will take 24 minutes longer than the larger pipe to fill the cistern alone. The small pipe alone will take 32 minutes longer to fill the cistern alone when the two pipes are operating together. How long will it take for the larger pipe to fill the cistern alone?
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Question 1006654: In a factory, one machine produces three times the number of pictures that another machine produces in the same period of time. Together they can do a job in 3 hours. How long will it take each machine alone to do the same job?
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Question 1006625: A table listed at Rs.350 is available at succesive discount 25% and 10% Find the selling price of the tacle
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Question 1006801: mary can paint the bedroom in 6 hours and her friend lucy can paint the same bedroom in 8 hours. How long will it take them to pain the bedroom if they work together?

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Question 1006870: 2 men can paint a house in 8 days. One is lazy; the other one is
energetic. The energetic one paints the same house in 12 days
on his own. How long will it take for the lazy one to paint the
same house?
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Question 1006885: 3 men can cut 15 trees in 2 hours. if two men leave the job,how many trees will be cut in 3 hours
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