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Nicholas and Jack volunteer to fill gift boxes for soldiers serving overseas. Both work at a constant rate. They work together for 6 hours and fill 126 boxes. Nicholas fills 9 boxes every hour. How many boxes does Jack fill every hour?

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Firstly, we need to know the number of boxes they both filled per hour.

From the question, we are told that 126 boxes were filled in six hours; thus in an hour, the number of boxes filled will be 126/26 = 21 boxes

Now in an hour, Nicholas filled 9 boxes; the number of boxes that will be filled is clearly the remainder of the 21 boxes.

The number of boxes filled by Jack is thus; 21 - 9 = 12 boxes

Jack fills 12 boxes in an hour

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