If Thomas can paint 1/3 = 2/6 of the room in a hour and Brian can paint 1/6 of the room in an hour. Which means in an hour they can collectively paint 3/6 = 1/2 of the room. Now you need to find how long it would take then to paint 2/2 of the room. Knowing that 1/2+1/2 = 2/2, it would take them 2 hours to paint the room together
The outlier is the piece of data that does not fit the general data set. In this case, 46 is much higher than all of the other numbers. This is the outlier.
