SOLUTION: a three person maintenance crew could clean a certain building in 4h, whereas a four person crew could do the job in 3h. if one worker of the four person crew was an hour late, how
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Question 1052638: a three person maintenance crew could clean a certain building in 4h, whereas a four person crew could do the job in 3h. if one worker of the four person crew was an hour late, how long did the job take?
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Say an output of 100 makes the job complete.
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For a 3 person crew,
For a 4 person crew,
So for the first hour, it was only a 3 person crew.
So they completed 25 units of output which leaves 75 units to complete.
Now switch to the 4 person rate,
So adding the hour from before,
