It will take 42.35 minutes to weed the garden together.
<h2>Why?</h2>
To solve the problem, we need to use the given information about the rate for both Laura and her husband. We know that she can weed the garden in 1 hour and 20 minutes (80 minutes) and her husband can weed it in 1 hour and 30 minutes (90 minutes), so we need to combine both's work and calculate how much time it will take to weed the garden together.
So, calculating we have:
Laura's rate:
Husband's rate:
Now, writing the equation we have:
Hence, we have that it will take 42.35 minutes to weed the garden working together.
Jennifer and Jane are best friends. They placed a map of their town on a coordinate grid and found the point at which each of their house lies. If Jennifer's house lies at (2, 12) and Jane's house is at (16, 2) and they wanted to meet in the middle.