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It takes 40 minutes for 8 people to paint 4 walls.

How many minutes does it take 10 people to paint 7 walls?
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1 hour and 10 minutes?
User Ankit Sangwan
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Answer: 56 minutes

Explanation: it will take 1/4 of the time to paint one wall. So it will take 10 minutes for 8 people to paint one wall. So the number of minutes it will take for one person to paint 7 walls is 80 x 7 =560 and because there is ten people 560/10=56.

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