
Concept explainers
To find: The time taken by Stan to mow the lawn.

Answer to Problem 62E
The time taken by Stan to mow the loan is 2 hrs.
Explanation of Solution
Given:
Hilda works twice as fast as Stan. If they work together than they take 40 min to mow the loan.
Calculation:
Let the time taken by Stan to mow the lawn be x.
Tabulate the given information algebraically.
In words | In Algebra |
Time taken by Hilda | x |
Time taken by Stan | 2x |
Work done by Hilda | |
Work done by Stan | |
Work done by Hilda and Stan together in 1 min |
Model the equation for the above information as follows.
On further simplification,
So, the time taken by Hilda is 60 min. That is, one hour.
Since Hilda works twice as fast as Stan, the time taken by Stan
That is, 2 hours.
Thus, the time taken by Stan to mow the loan is 2 hrs.
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