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Question 1063323: problem given to me is:Yolly can clean the room in 9 minutes and Marie can do it 60 minutes. if Yolly cleans the room for 15 minutes before Marie joins her, how long would it take them to finish? my question is how can i translate it to an equation?

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Question 1063407: What part of the job can Hanz do per hour if the whole job takes.
1. 5 hours
2. x hours
3. (x + 1) hours
4. 1/2 hour
5. 2/3 hour
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Question 1063809: If A and B can paint the fence of a park in 8 days, B and C can paint the fence in 12 days and C and A can paint the fence in 6 days. In how many days will each one of them paint the fence?

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Question 1063828: luis has 7 boxes he can fill with 20 toys. four are already filled. how many more toys he can place in the boxes?
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Question 1063895: Jen does one-quarter of a job in 3 hours. If Nicky works 2 hours more than Jen, she can finish one-sixth of the job. How long does it take to do the job if they work together?
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Question 1063882: Find the number of rooms that Jake, Lionel, and Donald can paint working together if t is 6 hours.
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Question 1064060: Huey can weed Donald's garden in 12 minutes, Dewey can weed the garden in 18 minutes, and Louie can weed the garden in 30 minutes. In a spirit of cooperation they all decide to work together to weed the garden. What fraction of the work does each boy do? How should they spit $120 after finishing?
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Question 1064188: To fill a water tank tap A takes 3 hours and to fill half of the tank tap B takes 2 hours. if both A and B taps are open how much time it will take to fill the tank?
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Question 1064276: If 9 workers can complete 12 chairs in 3 days, how long will it take 4 workers to complete 15 similar chairs?

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Question 1064276: If 9 workers can complete 12 chairs in 3 days, how long will it take 4 workers to complete 15 similar chairs?

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Question 1064288: A and B take 18 days to complete a piece of work .A left the work after 10 days and B takes 12 days more to complete the work.In how many A can complete the whole work?
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Question 1064332: If Janet can paint a wall in 10 hours but working with Linda, both of them can paint the fence in 4 hours. How long would it have taken Janet to paint the fence alone?
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Question 1064380: Jason and Hilger are required to paint over the graffiti on a wall.
If Jason worked alone, it would take him 20 hrs to repaint. Working
alone, Hilger could do the job in 15 hrs. How long will it take them
to do the painting If they work together?
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Question 1064534: In a music poll of 25 students. 15 liked rock, 9 liked jazz, and 12 liked rap. 4 students liked all 3 types of music. 4 liked only rock and jazz, and 5 liked only rock and rap. If no students liked only jazz and rap, how many students did not like any of these types of music?
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Question 1064533: Find the greatest 4 digit number that has exactly 3 factors.
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Question 1064533: Find the greatest 4 digit number that has exactly 3 factors.
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Question 1064590: An Olympic sized pool can be filled by pipe a in 18 hours and pipe b in 12 hours.there is also a drain pipe that drains the entire pool in 8 hours. if the values of pipe a and pipe b and the drain pipe are open how long will it take to fill the pool? round to the nearest tenth of an hour if necessary.
rate, time, fraction of job
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Question 1064673: 12 men produce 700 watches in 9 working days. How long will it take 18 men to produce the 700 watches
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Question 1064718: 15 men can do a work in 210 days.if 15 additional men engaged every after 10 days, in how many days can the work be finished?
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Question 1064709: 15 men can do a work in 210 days.if 15 additional men engaged every after 10 days, in how many days the work be finished?
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Question 1065102: theres a tank and theres 2 taps that pour into it
first tap fills it up in 30 min
fills it up in 90 min
how long will it take to fill up the tank if both taps where open

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Question 1065360: A towns old street sweeper can clean the streets in 60 hrs. Working together with a new sweeper they can do the job in 15 hrs. How long would it take the new sweeper to do the job working alone?
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Question 1065440: todd usually walks to school, it takes less then 15 minutes. When it rains his mom takes him, this is faster then walking but it takes more then 5 minutes. Give all possible answers for the number of minutes that it takes todd to walk to school.
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Question 1065482: A takes 5 days to finish a work, B takes 8 days to finish the same work. If A,B,C together take 3 days to finish the work. How many days C takes to finish same work alone?

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Question 1065527: Kian can paint a wall in 9 hours, if Audrey helped the job is done in 6 hours, how many hours it will taked if Audrey worked alone?
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Question 1065584: a crew of four workers is working on installing a roof on a house. The work is equally divided among the crew and work is scheduled to be completed in 4 days. What fraction of the whole roof is to be completed by each worker everyday to finish the project on time?
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Question 1065626: 5 men and 4 women can shovel as much snow in 6 days as 4 men and 6 women can shovel in 5 days. Who are the better workers, the men or women and by how much?
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Question 1065751: Water is pumped into the pool through a pipe with a 2-in diameter at a velocity of 1.5 feet per second. Another pipe is attached at the bottom of the pool, which is used to drain water from the pool. The pipe has a diameter of 3 inches and the pump at its end sucks water out at a velocity of 0.25 ft/sec. One day, when the pool was empty, both the inlet and outlet pipes were opened simultaneously. How many hours will it now take to fill the pool? The volume of the pool is 7200.
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Question 1065798: Nicholas spent $15 dollars on 25 pens. Use the ratio table to determine how many pens he could buy for $18.
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Question 1065910: Two jet planes simultaneously started traveling in opposite directions from the same airport. Four hours later they were 3800 miles apart. Find the rate of each plane, if one of them traveled 80 miles per hour faster than the other.

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Question 1066020: One pump can fill a pool in 16 hr. Working with a second slower pump, the pumps together can fill the pool in 12 hr. How fast can the second pump fill the pool by itself.
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Question 1066074: 8 workers can paint a building in 24 days.How many days will 18 workers take to paint the same building
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Question 1066218: Can u please help me answer this question
Mr khan gets a 10% raise in salary every year. His salary after 4 such raises has gone up by about what %?
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Question 1066248: two workers a and b together could finish the work in 8 days.they worked together for six days and a left the work.the remaining work was completed by b alone in 6 days.how many days would each take?

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Question 1066485: Twin brothers, Billy and Bobby, can mow their grandparent's lawn together in 74 minutes. Billy could mow the lawn by himself in 35 minutes less time than it would take Bobby. How long would it take Bobby to mow the lawn by himself?
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Question 1066537: sagar& Akash ran 2km race twice.Akash completed first round two minutes earlier than sagar.Then in second round sagar increased speed by 2km/hr then sagar finished the round 2 min. earlier than Akash.Find thier speed of running in the first round
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Question 1066540: The Sum of the digits of 3 digit number is 20. The middle digit is 1/4 of the sum of remaining two digits. If order of digits is reversed, the new number is more than earlier by 198. Find original number.

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