A can do a piece of work in 8 hours. B can do same piece of work in 12 hours. A starts working at 9AM and they worked on alternative hours. At which time work will be finished?
Question
A can do a piece of work in 8 hours. B can do same piece of work in 12 hours. A starts working at 9AM and they worked on alternative hours. At which time work will be finished?
Solution
Sure, let's solve this step by step:
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First, we need to find out how much work A and B can do in an hour. A can finish the work in 8 hours, so A can do 1/8 of the work in an hour. Similarly, B can do 1/12 of the work in an hour.
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Now, let's see how much work they can do together in two hours (since they are working in alternate hours). In the first hour, A does 1/8 of the work, and in the second hour, B does 1/12 of the work. So, in two hours, they can do 1/8 + 1/12 = 5/24 of the work.
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Now, we need to find out how many two-hour blocks they need to finish the work. Since they can do 5/24 of the work in two hours, they will need 24/5 two-hour blocks to finish the work. 24/5 = 4.8, so they will need 5 two-hour blocks to finish the work, because they can't work in fractions of an hour.
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So, they will finish the work in 5 * 2 = 10 hours.
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A starts working at 9AM, and they work for 10 hours, so the work will be finished at 7PM.
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