Time + work - practice problems
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- An electrician 6
An electrician can wire 4 1/2 rooms in 3 hours. How long does it take him to wire each room? - Painting a room
If 1 person can paint a room in 6 hrs, how many hours will 3 people finish painting the room? - Working together
Zeru can complete a certain job in 5 days, and Tulu can complete the same job in 3 days. How long will they complete the job if they work together? - Tadeo
Tadeo volunteered at the library 6 times as many hours over the weekend as Dylan. Together, they volunteered a total of 14 hours. How many hours did each person volunteer over the weekend? Write a system of equations that represents the situation. Let x r - Kevin 3
Kevin makes a list of the tasks he has to do after school and how long it will take him to do each task. Task Time; (hours) Read ; 1/3 Do homework ; 3/4 Play soccer ; 4/6 Practice piano ; 1/2 How long will it take Kevin to complete all of his tasks? Show - 3 men
Three men painting a house take 7 1/2 days. How long will 5 men take over the same job? Working at the same rate. - Workers
Suppose John starts work at 8:45 AM and finishes at 5:15 PM. He has 90 minutes of breaks. How many hours does he work in 5 days? - Sophie 2
Sophie earns $12.80 per hour babysitting. She has to repay a loan to her parents in the amount of $100. After repaying the loan, she wants to have at least enough money to buy herself a pair of sneakers costing $130.40. Write an inequality modeling the nu - Peter 13
Peter and Paul finished the first round of orders in 3 hours and 15 minutes. Peter, however, works a lot faster than Paul does; Peter is 2 and a half times as fast as Paul. For the second day of shipping orders, peter is unavailable; paul will have to do - A stock
A stock of food is enough to feed 50 people for 14 days. How many days will the food last if 20 more people are added? - One weekend
One weekend, Raul worked 5 ¾ hours on Saturday and 2 ⅔ hours on Sunday. How many hours did Raul work that weekend? Tips: a. What is asked? b. What is given? c. What operation should be used? a. What is the number sentence? b. Show your solution: - Doubravka 83293
Evelyn plows the garden in four hours, while her friend Doubravka can do it in three hours. Evelína started work at 1 p.m., and an hour later, Doubravka joined her so they could go swimming together. Calculate the time the girls can go to the swimming poo - Together 83245
Jarka and Jana decided to decorate their common room. If Jarka painted it alone, it would take her 4 hours, and Jane 3 hours. How long would they paint the room if they painted together? - Families 83209
Coal for 15 families lasts 60 days. How many days will the coal last for 20 families? - Seamstresses 83192
Three sewers sew 7 skirts in 15 hours. How many skirts can 2 seamstresses make in 50 hours? - Equally 83095
John and Joseph carved the garden in 6 days. If an equally fast George joined them, how many days would it take them? - Simultaneously 83038
The cable car can take a given group of skiers out in 20 minutes and the lift in 30 minutes. How long will the lift and cable car take this group out simultaneously? - Corrects 83017
The new teacher corrects papers for 9 hours, and the older one fixes them in 6 hours. How much will they repair together? - Squirrel 82999
A supply of acorns will last a squirrel for 12 weeks and a squirrel for 18 weeks. They ate acorns together for 4 weeks, then the squirrel left. How long did the squirrel have a supply of acorns? - Together 82970
The first tiler would tile the pool inside in 5 working hours; the second would need 7 working hours for the same job. How long would it take them to tile the pool inside together if the second tiler starts working on the pool 12 minutes later than the fi
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