SOLUTION: Jean paints the house in 10 hours, Micheal does is in 12 hours. Jean starts the work paints 1/3 of the house, micheal does the rest. How many hours in total takes them to paint the
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Question 978732: Jean paints the house in 10 hours, Micheal does is in 12 hours. Jean starts the work paints 1/3 of the house, micheal does the rest. How many hours in total takes them to paint the house? Answer by josgarithmetic(39630) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The work of painting the house is split into two time periods. Main first goal is find the
missing time quantities.
RT=J to relate RATE, TIME, and amount of JOB, here being equal to 1.
subscripts j and m for Jean and Michael. Michael works on the remaining after
jean's part.
PERSON_______jobs per hour
Jean___________1/10
Michael________1/12
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