SOLUTION: Willy Wanka's factory Has a machine that can make 1000 chocolates bars in5 hours. A new machine was brought and it could make the same amount of chocolates in only 3 hours. During
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Question 1092045: Willy Wanka's factory Has a machine that can make 1000 chocolates bars in5 hours. A new machine was brought and it could make the same amount of chocolates in only 3 hours. During the holiday rush, both machines were used together to make an order of 20,000 chocolates How long would both machines have to make them? Answer by ikleyn(52867) (Show Source):
The rate of the old machine is chocs per hour.
The rate of the new machine is chocs per hour.
Their combined rate is = = chocs per hour.
It will take = = 37.5 hours to make 20000 chocs working together.
