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aliina [53]
3 years ago
10

Sally can paint the office​ by herself in 5 hours. Lucy can do the same job in 4 hours. How long will it take them to do it work

ing together?
Social Studies
1 answer:
Zepler [3.9K]3 years ago
7 0

Answer:

2.22 hours

Explanation:

If Sally can paint the office by herself in 5 hours, we can say that in one hour she paints 1/5 of the office.

On the other hand, Lucy paints the office in 4 hours, which means that, in 1 hour she paints 1/4 of the office.

Therefore, to know how much they would paint per hour working together, we are going to sum up the fractions they paint per hour:

\frac{1}{5} +\frac{1}{4}=\frac{4+5}{20}  =\frac{9}{20}

Therefore, working together they will paint \frac{9}{20} =0.45 of the office in one hour.

Now we can establish a rule of three: if they paint 0.45 of the office in 1 hour, how long (x) will it take them to paint 1.0 of the office?

1- 0.45\\x-1

And therefore x = \frac{1}{0.45}=2.22

Therefore, it will take them 2.22 hours to paint the office working together.

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