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Melissa and Jane are planting trees. Melissa plants 10 trees in 1 hour. Jane plants 17 tree in 2 hours.

Enter an equation that can be used to find the number of hours t, takes Melissa and jane to plant 111 trees together

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Answer:

6 hours

Explanation:

Let both of them plan for t hours to plant 111 trees n t hours

Melissa can plants 10 trees in 1 hour

in t hours she can plant 10 t trees

Jane plants 17 tree in 2 hours

in one hour Jane can plant 17/2 trees

in t hours she can plant (17/2)t trees.

Total trees planted by both of them in t hours in terms of t will be

10t + (17/2)t

= (10t*2 + 17t)/2

= (20t + 17t)/2

= 37t/2

but it is given that they planted 111 trees together

so 37t/2 should be equal to 111

37t/2 = 111

=> 37t = 111*2 = 222

=> t = 222/37 = 6.

Thus, it takes 6 hours for both of them to plant 111 trees together.

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