SOLUTION: If violet were painting her living room alone, it would take 4 hours. Her sister Jackie could do the job in 5 hours. How long would it take them working together?

Algebra ->  Rate-of-work-word-problems -> SOLUTION: If violet were painting her living room alone, it would take 4 hours. Her sister Jackie could do the job in 5 hours. How long would it take them working together?       Log On


   



Question 1075319: If violet were painting her living room alone, it would take 4 hours. Her sister Jackie could do the job in 5 hours. How long would it take them working together?
Answer by ikleyn(52890) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
.
Read the lesson
    - Using Fractions to solve word problems on joint work
in this site.

You will find a lot of solved joint work problems similar to yours.


Also, you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I in this site
    - ALGEBRA-I - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.

The referred lesson is the part of this textbook under the topic "Rate of work and joint work problems" of the section "Word problems".