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Sorry about the screen, I’m using my laptop! Please help me if you know the answer my dumb mind can’t work it out

Sorry about the screen, I’m using my laptop! Please help me if you know the answer-example-1
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Answer:

5.9 hours, 10£

Explanation:

For the first question, you must find how long it would take 1 knitter to do all the work, and you can move on from there. Since it takes 11 knitters 7 hours, it would take 1 knitter 11 times as long, meaning it would take 7*11=77 hours for 1 knitter. Now we can divide 77 hours by 13 as 13 knitters could to it in 1/13 of the time. Dividing 77 by 13 we get 5.9 hours.

For the second question, if each person pays 9£, and there are 10 people, in total they are paying 10*9£=90£. This means that if the spit it up between 9 people instead, each would by 90£/9=10£. This means they would each have to pay 10£.

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