SOLUTION: Lolita and Doug working together can paint a shed in 3 hours and 20 minutes. If Doug can paint the shed by himself in 10 hours, how long would it take Lolita to paint the shed by h
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Question 386525: Lolita and Doug working together can paint a shed in 3 hours and 20 minutes. If Doug can paint the shed by himself in 10 hours, how long would it take Lolita to paint the shed by herself? Answer by scott8148(6628) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! in the 10/3 hr that they work together , Doug paints 1/3 of the shed
so Lolita paints 2/3 (twice as much as Doug)
Lolita takes 10/3 hr to paint 2/3 of the shed , so it would take her 5 hr [(10/3) / (2/3)] to paint the shed alone
this is confirmed by the fact that she works twice as fast as Doug , so she would take half the time
