Question

PLEASE HELP URGENT!!!!!!

Tom, Sam and Victor are painting the rooms in their new house. It takes Tom 4 hours to paint one room, but Sam and Victor take 3 hours each. If all of them work together, how long does it take them to paint one room?

Answer 1

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Answer:

12/11 = 1 1/11 hours

Explanation:

The total rate is the sum of the individual rates in rooms per hour.

Tom can paint 1/4 room per hour.

Sam and Victor can each paint 1/3 room per hour.

Their total rate is ...

1/4 +1/3 +1/3 = 11/12 . . . rooms per hour

The rate in "hours per room" is the inverse of this.

It takes them 12/11 = 1 1/11 hours to paint one room.