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Step-by-step explanation:
1 In response to customers' bitter complaints about long lines, banks are trying new ways to shorten the wait or at least to make it more pleasant. 2 One bank provides coffee and cookies so customers can munch while they wait. 3 Other banks show action movies on a large video screen. 4 One daring bank in California will pay a customer five dollars if he or she must wait more than five minutes for service. 5 Still other banks offer the most obvious solution of all...they simply hire more bank tellers. Where is the main idea? *
If Bob can paint the fence in 4 hours, then in 1 hour he gets 1/4 of the fence painted. If Sarah can paint the fence in 2.5 hours, then she gets 2/5 of the fence painted in one hour (1/2.5 = 2/5). We add those amounts together and set them equal to 1/x, x being the the total time it will take them to paint the whole fence. 1/4 + 2/5 = 1/x. Find a common denominator first, then add the left side together. 5/20 + 8/20 = 1/x. 13/20 = 1/x. Cross-multiply to get 13x = 20 and x = 1.54 hours, just a bit over an hour and a half.
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1. 145
2. 21
3. 42
4. 40
5. 90
6. 120
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