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It takes John 5 hours to paint a house. It takes Bob 3 hour
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It takes John 5 hours to paint a house. It takes Bob 3 hours to paint the same house. How long will it take to paint the house if both of them work together? Answer by scott8148(6628) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! when people work together to complete a task,
__ each person completes some fraction of the task based on their individual rate
for example __ if Mike can build a shed in 10 hours,
__ when he works with a group that can build it in 3 hrs; Mike does 3/10 or 30% of the job
the individual fractions sum to 1, the whole task
let x=time together __ x/5+x/3=1 __ multiplying by 15 __ 3x+5x=15 __ 8x=15
