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?
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