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Alice takes 4 hours to paint a wall. With sam's help, they can paint the wall in 3 hours. Without help, how long would it take Sam to do the same thing?
10 years ago

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Steve
1/4 + 1/s = 1/3

Now just solve for s.
10 years ago
Daniel
12 hours
9 years ago

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