Week 11 Review: Practice Exercises and Problems

After learning about work problems, let’s solve the following exercises. Solutions and answers will be posted soon.

Week 11 Review: Practice Exercises and Problems

1.) Aria can do a job in 7 days. What part of the job is finished after she worked for 3 days?

2.) Katya can do a job in 5 days. Marie can do the same job in 6 days. If they both worked for 1 day, what part of the job is finished?

3.) Ramon can paint a house in 6 days. Ralph can do the same job in 10 days. If they both worked for 2 days, what part of the job is done?

4.) One hose can fill a pool in 3 hours and a smaller hose can fill the same pool in 4 hours. How long will it take the two hoses to fill the entire pool?

5.) Marco can dig a ditch in 5 hours and he and Jimmy can do it in 2 hours. How long would it take Jimmy to dig the same ditch alone?

6.) Maria can paint a fence in 6 days and Leonora can do the same job in 7 days. They start to paint it together, but after two days, Leonora left, and Maria finishes the job alone. How many days will it take Leonora to finish the job?

7.) An inlet pipe can fill a pool in 4 hours. An outlet pipe can fill the same pool in 6 hours. One day, the pool was empty. The owner opened the inlet pipe but forgot to close the outlet pipe. How long will it take to fill the pool?

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