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Question 1044061: Mike can repaint a dog house three times faster than miguel. If they work together, it will take them 4 days to complete the job. How long would it take for mike to do the repainting alone?
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Question 1044142: An old computer takes 15 minutes longer to print a document than the new computer. Together the computers can print the document in 4 minutes. How long for the new computer working alone?
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Question 1044195: You are the gardener hired by a landscape architect. In digging a garden. You work twice as fast as your assistant. Together, you can finish the job in 4hours. You need to find out how long it can finish the job if each of you works alone. To this first you have to determine the expressions that represents the job completed based on your individual work rates. You have to fill the table below
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Question 1044243: It takes Victor 6 days more to paint a house than Roger. If they work together, they can finish the same job in 4 days. How long will it take Victor to finish the job alone?
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Question 1044247: During a 4 hour period you are expected to assemble 24 mousetraps. How much time do you have to assemble each mousetrap.
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Question 1044247: During a 4 hour period you are expected to assemble 24 mousetraps. How much time do you have to assemble each mousetrap.
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Question 1044283: How do I set up this word problem using proportions?
A carpenter can install six windows in five hours. How long would it take her to install eight windows? Use proportion to solve and round to your answer to the nearest tenth.
I took 5 hours and divided by 6 windows to figure how much time per window was needed. Then I took .8 (.833 rounded to nearest tenth) and multiplied that to the 8 windows. Final answer was 6.4 hrs. How do I set this up using proportions?

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Question 1044395: Charlee washes 10 dishes in 4 minutes. At this ratehow long will it take her to wash 25 dishes?
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Question 1044407: Jessica drove to her cabin on the lake and back. it took one hour longer to go there then it did to come back. The average speed on the trip was 50 km/h. The average speed on the way back was 75 km/h. how many hours to the trip there take?
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Question 1044585: In laying out an article of 32,000 words, an editor decides to use two sizes of type. Using the larger type, a printed page contains 900 words. Using the smaller type, a page contains 1,400 words. The article is allotted 30 full pages in a magazine. How many pages must be in the small type?
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Question 1044684: A factory can produce 840 tables in 30 days.how many tables can the factory produce in 12 days

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Question 1044724: A wall in a house is currently 12 feet long and a contractor wants to add 108 inches to the wall. How long will the extended wall be in yards?
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Question 1045439: working alone,photography machine C requires 40 minutes to complete an 800 page job.working together machines B and C require 25 mins for the same 800 page job.with machines A,B and C working together, the job takes 10 minutes. how long does it take machine A to complete the Job working alone?
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Question 1045657: Pat and Mike working together can assemble a bookcase in 8 minutes. It takes Mike, working by himself, 12 minutes longer than it takes Pat working by himself to assemble the bookcase. How long does it take each, working alone, to do the job?
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Question 1045807: a man can paint a door in 1 1/4 hour. how many similar doors can be painted in 7 1/2 hours?
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Question 1045926: alemitu can paint a house in 4 hours,alemu can paint the same house in 2 hours,how long will it take to paint the house,if they work together?
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Question 1046470: John and Tom are farmers. John can produce 1500 lb of an organic product in six months. Tom can produce 3500 lb of the organic product in one year. How many pounds of organic product can they produce in three years together? (Assume that they can work and produce the organic product all year round.)
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Question 1047446: 3. Keith and Nancy were able to wash a boat in 6 hours together. It takes Nancy 9 hours to do the same thing alone. Without help, how long would it take Keith to do the same thing?
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Question 1047531: Write an equation and solve. Three (3) runs of pipe are removed during demolition. Their lengths are 25 0, 16 4, and 1 10 How much pipe is removed?
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Question 1047887: You want to make a drawing of a room in your school. The room is 7 m and the 10 m wide. You want to make your drawing with the scale of 2cm:1m. Give the lenght and the width of your scale drawing
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Question 1047902: remy received 6 jobs offers from the 15 interviews he did last month. which ratio best describes the relationship between the number of jobs he was not offered and the number of jobs for which he interviewed?
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Question 1047905: home builder Alex and Alba are planning a narrow stairway to an attic. The stairs will each be 2 feet 8 inches' long. They will cut the stairs from boards that are 8 feet long. How many whole stairs can they cut from one 8-foot board? (hint: 8 inches is 2/3 foot)
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Question 1048457: Ryan and Eric work for a mail order company. It takes Eric 1 hour longer to fill 100 orders than Ryan. If they work together, it takes them 4hours to fill the orders. Find the amount of time required for each individual to fill 100 orders working alone.
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Question 1048386: Marina had RM24,500 to invest. She divided the money into three different accounts. At the end of the year, she had made RM1,300 in interest. The annual yield on each of the three accounts was 4%, 5.5%, and 6%. If the amount of money in the 4% account was four times the amount of money in the 5.5% account, how much had she placed in each account?

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Question 1048640: At the end of the day, a pharmacist counted and found she has 4/3 as many prescriptions for antibiotics as she did for tranquilizers. She had 84 prescriptions for the two types of drugs. How many prescriptions did she have for tranquilizers?

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Question 1048767: Mary is printing flyers for a campus event. She is using two printers to make the copies, the first printer takes twice as long as the second printer to print the same number of flyers. If it will take 20 minutes to print the flyers using both printers, how long will it take each of the printers working alone to do the print job?
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Question 1048936: May bikes 6 miles in 20 minutes and 12 miles in 40 minutes the relationship between number of miles and number of minutes
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Question 1049055: Please help me with this word problem: A doctor normally sees a certain number of patients in 24 days. But she was able to increase her productivity by 5 patients per day, and so she not saw all the patients in only 22 days but also she saw 80 extra patients. How many patients does the doctor normally see per day?
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Question 1049187: If Jim can dig a hole in 3 hours, and Dave can dig the same size hole in 1 hour, how long will it take them if they are working together?
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Question 1049326: 1. X takes 2 hours to pack 200 boxes of oranges, and Y takes 3 hours to pack 150 boxes of oranges. How long will they take, working together, to pack 1800 boxes of oranges?
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Question 1049521: Two employees are painting walls. A takes twice as long as B to paint the same area. During a typical 8-hour day, A works the full 8 hours, but B takes a 2-hour break. A paints one way in a day. How many walls do both employees paint together in 1 day? I need an explanation on how to ...
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Question 1049625: It takes a boy 45 minutes to deliver the newspaper on his route, however if his sister helps, It takes only 20 minutes.How long they would it take his sister to deliver the newspaper by herself?
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Question 1049638: Worker "A" can do a certain job in 3hrs, while "B" can do same same work in 4hrs of they work together, how long will it take them to do job?
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Question 1049640: A radiator contains 8 quartz of mixture of water and antifreezer of 40% of mixture in antifreezer, how percent of mixture should be drained and replaced by pure antifreezer so that the resultant mixture contain 60% antifreezer?
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