Work word problems - page 31 of 40
Work Problems are word problems that involve different people doing work together but at different rates. Another problem involves pipes filling up a tank. Another name for these problems is working together word problems.We suggest solving working together word problems with the proportion. If we can complete a task in t hours, we can complete 1/t of the task in one hour.
Number of problems found: 781
- Determine 3851
Michal would cut the fence himself in 12 hours. It would take Michal and Juraj 8 hours together. Determine how long it would take for Juraj to do the job. - Mean
For a student's food, the mean of 50 items is 38.6. When checking the work, he found that he had taken one item as 50 to read as 40 in these circumstances correctly. What should the correct arithmetic mean? - Together 3781
Milos would do the work himself in 5 hours. How much would it take Dan to do the job together in two hours? - Painting rooms
If Daniel paints for three hours daily, he completes it in 7.5 days. How many hours a day would he have to work to finish the job 1.5 days earlier?
- Grass
Peter and Stano lawn grass for 3 hours 12 minutes. How long would it take for Peter if Stano lawn grasses himself for 384 minutes? - Cleaners
Milan would clean up the room for 2.5 hours, and Eric would take 10 hours. How long do they sweep the room together? - The creek
Workers cleaned the creek within three days. On the first day, cleanse one-fifth of the creek's length, the next day 40% of the stream's length, and the third day, 8 km length of the creek. How long is a creek? - Factory
In the factory, workers work in three shifts. In the first inning operates, half of all employees in the second inning and a third in the third inning 200 employees. How many employees work at the factory? - Blueberries 2
Lenka and Martin collected eight liters of blueberries in two hours. How long will Lenka take to collect blueberries itself if we know that she collects all 2.5 hours less than Martin?
- Contract
Eight employees complete the contract for 65 hours. After 17 hours, three employees had to leave for another job. How many more hours will the job on the contract be fulfilled? - Calculation 3620
The mine foreman calculated that 2 pumps must be in operation for 17.5 hours to drain the tunnel. He wanted to speed up the emptying of the shaft and added 3 more identical pumps. How long will it take to empty the shaft? Please also show your calculation - Pumps
Four identical pumps fill the tank in 40 hours. How many pumps would we have to use if we wanted to save 8 hours? - Distance 3615
Honza left home at 8 a.m. on foot at an average speed of 4 km/h. At 11 a.m., dad followed him on a bicycle at an average speed of 40 km/h. How long and at what distance from home will dad catch up with Honza? - Master work
The master will complete the given task in 4 hours. How long will it take to master students entirely in three hours when they're done together?
- Switzerland 3584
Zuzka and Hanka used to work in a cherry orchard to earn money for a sightseeing trip to Switzerland. They brushed 15 trees every day and harvested the entire orchard in 10 days. How long would it take them to harvest the entire orchard if they brushed 20 - Hall
The rectangular hall will have to pave with square tiles with a side length of 15 cm. The hall has a length of 18 meters and a width of 3 m. How many tiles need to buy if 2 percent of the amount is disrupted during the work? - Together 3491
One painter would paint the school in 15 days. Together with the second painter, they painted the school in 6 days. In how many days the second painter would have painted the school himself? - Twenty-seven 3476
Twenty-seven workers did the work in 12 days. In how many days would nine workers do the same job? - Minutes 3475
A scribe with an average speed of 250 strokes per minute would write text in 16 minutes. How many minutes longer would she write the exact text at an average rate of 200 beats per minute?
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