Question 800881
Under pressure to make a deadline, an office manager directs her fastest typist to type a document that should take 40 mins. After 15 mins, she realizes the typist won't make the deadline and she asks a second, slower typist to start typing some of the pages. Fifteen minutes later the document is finished. How long would it have taken the slower typist to type the document?
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1st typist does 15/40 = 3/8 of the job.
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2nd typist DATA:
time = 15 min for 5/8 job
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Let rate be "x"
job/rate = time
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(5/8)/x = 15 min
x = (5/8)/15
x = 1/24 job/min
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2nd typist time 24 min/job
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Cheers,
Stan H.