Question 872145
 'Joe can type one page in 8 minutes. Tyler can type one page in 12 minutes.How long would it take them working together, to type 50 pages?' I am having the hardest time creating the form that the equation is supposed to be in, in order to solve the problem. Thank you.

let us say typing one page is = 1 job

Joe takes 8 minutes for the job
so he does 1/8 of the job in 1 minute

similarly Tyler does 1/12 of the job in 1 minute

So together they will do 1/12 + 1/8 of the job in 1 minute

= (2+3)/24 
= 5/24 of the job in 1 minute

so they can type  24/5 pages in one minute

for 50 pages they will take  50 * 24/5 minutes

=240 minutes