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It takes 1 worker 15 hours to paint a room. it takes 3 workers 5 hours to paint the same room. martin wrote the function, y = -5x + 20, to model the number of hours required for x workers to paint the room. did he choose the correct kind of equation to model the situation? if so, did he write the correct equation? if not, what equation should he have written?

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He chose the right type of equation equation, but the equation should be y=15/x
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