SOLUTION: Tina can weed her vegetable garden completely in 20 minutes. Her friend Marisa can do the same task in 50 minutes. If they work​ together, how long does it take Tina and Mari
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Question 1080749: Tina can weed her vegetable garden completely in 20 minutes. Her friend Marisa can do the same task in 50 minutes. If they work together, how long does it take Tina and Marisa to weed the vegetable garden Found 3 solutions by jorel1380, josmiceli, MathTherapy:Answer by jorel1380(3719) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Tina does 1/20th of weeding her vegetable garden per minute. Likewise, Marisa does 1/50th a garden per minute. So:
1/20+1/50=1/n
5/100+2/100=1/n
7/100=1/n
7n=100
n=100/7, or 14.28571 minutes to weed the garden, working together. ☺☺☺☺
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Tina's rate of working:
[ 1 garden weeded ] / [ 20 min ]
Marisa's rate of working:
[ 1 garden weeded ] / [ 50 min ]
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Add their rates of working to get their rate
working together, which is:
[ 1 garden weeded ] / [ t min ]
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Multiply both sides by
Working together, it will take them
14 min 17 sec
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check:
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You can put this solution on YOUR website! Tina can weed her vegetable garden completely in 20 minutes. Her friend Marisa can do the same task in 50 minutes. If they work together, how long does it take Tina and Marisa to weed the vegetable garden