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Question 1077410: A machine can scan 12pages in 3/5 minute .how many pages scanned in 1 minute? Show how to solve .
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Question 1077410: A machine can scan 12pages in 3/5 minute .how many pages scanned in 1 minute? Show how to solve .
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Question 1077598: It takes Greg 45 minutes to rake the leaves around his house. When Peter helps him, the total time it takes is 1/3 of the time it would have taken Peter by himself. How long would it take Peter to rake the leaves by himself?
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Question 1077604: When they work together, Ted & Kim can do their weekly chores in 58 minutes. When Kim works alone she can finish the chores in 12 minutes less time than Ted. When Ted works alone, how long will it take him to do the weekly chores in the house?
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Question 1077658: It takes 22 minutes for 10 people to paint 10 walls.
How many minutes does it take 14 people to paint 14 walls?

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Question 1077669: Naomi can harvest wheat in 72 hours. Her cousin offers to help her, he can harvest his wheat in 48 hours. How long would it take if they work together.
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Question 1077702: The workman A finishes the job 2 hours faster than the workman C, and 1 hour slower than workman B. If workman A and B work together the job will be finished in 1 hour and 12 minutes. For how long will all workmen finish the job
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Question 1077696: Two workmen have to finish a job. If they work together the job will be done in 12 days. If the first workman works for nine days and the second workman works for 6 days 2/3 of the work will be finished. For how long will they finish the job separately
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Question 1077910: It takes George 5 hours to rake all the leaves. With Martha's help, together they can rake all the leaves in 2 hours. How long would it take Martha, working alone, to rake all the leaves?
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Question 1078031: Kim can paint the garage door in 2 hours and Jim can paint the same door in 1 hour. How long will it take them if they work together?
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Question 1077974: Use the points (0,0) and (3,288) to find the rate ed is walking
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Question 1078154: Ana can paint her house by herself in 4 days. Her son need an additional day to complete the job if he works by himself. If they work together , find how long it takes to paint the house ?
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Question 1078273: Two cyclists leave towns 78 miles apart at the same time and travel toward each other. One cyclist travels 8 miles per hour faster than the other. If they meet in
3 hours, what is the rate of each cyclist
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Question 1078290: A jet travels 3180mi against a jetstream in 5 hours and 3730mi with the jetstream in the same amount of time. What is the rate of the jet in still air and what is the rate of the jetstream?
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Question 1078294: Problem Page
Two cyclists start at the same point and travel in opposite directions. One cyclist travels 4 km/h faster than the other. If the two cyclists are 224km apart after 4
hours, what is the rate of each cyclist?
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Question 1078299: Problem Page
A child is running on a moving sidewalk in an airport. When he runs against the sidewalk's motion, he travels 60ft in 15 seconds. When he runs with the sidewalk's motion, he travels 132ft in 11 seconds. What is the rate of the child on a still sidewalk and what is the rate of the moving sidewalk
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Question 1078363: A child is running on a moving sidewalk in an airport. When he runs against the sidewalk's motion, he travels 60ft in 15 seconds. When he runs with the sidewalk's motion, he travels 132ft in 11 seconds. What is the rate of the child on a still sidewalk and what is the rate of the moving sidewalk?

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Question 1078533: A construction crew built 1/4 miles of road in 1/8 days what is the unit rate in miles per day?
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Question 1078776: Ron can paint the kitchen in 6 hours. If he and his wife can paint the kitchen in 2 hour, how long would it take his wife to paint it alone?
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Question 1078810: pump A fills swimming pool in 6 hours while pump B takes only 4 hours. If A and B are used together, how long do they take to fill the pool?
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Question 1078881: Sam can cultivate a piece of land in 7hours while Ian can do the same work in 5hours. Find time they would take to cultivate the same piece of land when working together
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Question 1078978: A janitor can clean a building in about 2 hours. When he has a helper, he can do it in 1.25 hours. how long would it take the helper to do it on his own? the answer is 3.33 hours but how would you set the problem up?
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Question 1079166: if a road crew painted 450 yards of lines on a new road,how many meters did they paint?
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Question 1079330: Franka and Henry take 6 hours to do a certain job, Franka uses 3 hours to do 1/5 of the job when they do it together.How many hours will Henry spend when he does the work alone?
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Question 1079605: Please help me solve this problem!: Mrs. Smith balances the company books in 5 hours. it takes her assistant 7 hours to do the same job. If they work together, find how long it takes them to balance the books.
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Question 1079732: One machine runs a part in 41.5 minutes. The second machine runs a part in 27 minutes. There are 13 parts already waiting to be run on the second machine. Both machines are running continuously. How long will it be, before the second machine catches the first one?
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Question 1079886: It takes 8 students two third of an hour to fill 12tanks with water. How many tanks of water will 4 students to fill in one third of an hour at the same rate
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Question 1079936: Please help me solve this word problem thanks!
3 drivers Tom, Zane, and Melissa can deliver all the vehicles from an auction to West coast Shipping warehouse in 12 days. If Zane and Tom work without Melissa, they can deliver all the vehicles in 18 days. If Tom and Melissa work without Zane, they can deliver all the vehicles in 16 days. How many days would it take Melissa to deliver if she works alone.
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Question 1079870: The inner circumference of a circular race truck is 352m.The truck is everywhere 2.5m wide. Calculate the cost of (I) levelling the truck at the rate of 1.80 per m^2. (II) putting up a fence along the fence along the outer circle of 3.25 per m
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Question 1079994: The time taken to load a truck varies inversely with the number of men employed.If 8 men can load a truck in 45 minutes, how long would it take 3 men to load the same truck?
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Question 1080404: A large pump can fill a water tank in 8 hours, and a smaller pump can fill it in 24 hours. In order to fill an empty tank, the small pump is operated for 6 hours, and then the large pump is also turned on. In total, how many hours will be required to fill the tank this way?
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Question 1080507: A father and his son can dig a well if the father work 6 hours and his son does 12 hours or they can do the job if father works 9 hours and the son works 8 hours. How long will it take for the son to dig the well alone?
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Question 1080621: michelle leaves for work at 5:20am which is 20 miles away. If she drives 40 miles an hour what time will she be at work
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Question 1080508: An intake pipe to a reservoir is controlled by a valve which automatically closes when the reservoir is full and opens again when 4/5's of water had been drained off. The intake pipe can fill the reservoir in 4 hours and the outlet pipe can drain it in 10 hours. If the outlet pipe remains open, how much time elapses between the two instants that the reservoir is fill?
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