Question 1171238: During the COVID 19 Pandemic, Jose and Clara volunteered to help in the repacking of goods and rice to be given to the their community. Working together, they can finish repacking in 5 hours. If Clara works alone on the repacking of goods and rice, it will take her 3 times slower than Jose to complete the repacking. Find the number of hours for Clara alone to finish the repacking. What is also the time for Jose to complete repacking alone?
Answer by greenestamps(13195)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
What is "...3 times slower than..." supposed to mean? Grammatically, it has no reasonable meaning.
Example: If Jose takes 2 hours to do the job, then "3 times slower than Jose" means the time it take Jose to do the job, minus 3 times the time it takes him. That would make "3 times slower than Jose" equal to 2-3(2) = 2-6 = -4 hours -- which of course is nonsense.
Re-post, using a phrase like "it takes her 3 times as long as Jose...".
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