Working together, Maggie and Tom can paint the fence in 5.1 hours
<h3><u>Solution:</u></h3>
Given that,
Maggie can paint a fence in 9 hours
So in 1 hour maggie paints, of the house
Tom needs 12 hours to paint the same fence
So in 1 hour, tom can paint of the house
To find: time taken to paint the fence if they work together
Let "a" be the time taken to paint the fence if they work together
So working together, in 1 hour, they can paint of the house
We can frame a equation as:
To see how much of the fence they can paint together in one hour, we add these together.
is how much of the fence they can paint together in one hour. Therefore "a" is the number of hours it will take them both to paint the fence
On solving,
So working together, Maggie and Tom can paint the fence in 5.1 hours