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john can finish a certain job in three hours and chris can finish it in two hours how many hours will it take them to finish the job if they work together

User Kevin Guto
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I think its 2 and a half hours. Because found their average/mean. I did this by adding both their hours together 3+2=5 and then divided 5 by 2 which equals 2.5. Thats how you find the mean /average. You just add up all the numbers and then divide it by how many numbers there were. In other words its the sum divided by the count. Hope that helped :)
User Damien Keitel
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Answer:

6/5

Step-by-step explanation:

1/3 + 1/2 = 1/x

5x = 6

5x/5 = 6/5

x = 6/5

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