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Some hikers made the round trip on a mountain trail in 10 hours. It took three times longer to hike down. How many hours did it take to hike up the trail?
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Some hikers made the round trip on a mountain trail in 10 hours. It took three times longer to hike down. How many hours did it take to hike up the trail?

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It would take the hikers 30 hours to go down the mountain trail. It took 40 hours over all
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It took them 2 and half hours up because of it took them 3 times as long to get down that would be 7 and half hours down. If you add it up 2.5+7.5=10
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