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Serggg [28]
3 years ago
9

Max and Maggie have to clean the house. It takes Max 12 hours to clean the house, while Maggie can complete the task in 4 hours.

Their sister says that it will take 3 hours to complete if they work together. Explain each step in solving this equation, and determine if the sister is correct or not.
Mathematics
1 answer:
zhannawk [14.2K]3 years ago
4 0
The older sister is correct.
1/12+1/4=1/x, with the numerators being the amount and the denominators being the time. We'll multiply them all by the GCF
x+3x=12
Then all we need to do is solve for x:
4x=12
x=3
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