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-A baker can decorate the day's cookie supply four times as fast as his new assistant. If they decorate all the cookies working together in 36 minutes, how long would it take for each of them to decorate the cookies
Working individually?
A)baker:aker: $10 \frac { 1 } { 4 }$ m minutesAssistant: 41 minutes
B)baker: 180 minutes assistant: 45 minutes
C)baker: 45 minutesassistant: 180 minutes
D)baker: 180 minutes assistant: 720 minutes

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Solve.
-A baker can decorate the day's cookie supply four times as fast as his new assistant. If they decorate all the cookies working together in 36 minutes, how long would it take for each of them to decorate the cookies
Working individually?
A)baker:aker: $10 \frac { 1 } { 4 }$ m minutesAssistant: 41 minutes
B)baker: 180 minutes assistant: 45 minutes
C)baker: 45 minutesassistant: 180 minutes 
D)baker: 180 minutes assistant: 720 minutes

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The baker can decorate the cookies four times as fast as the assistant, meaning if the baker takes x minutes, the assistant takes 4x minutes. Together, their rate is 1/x + 1/(4x) = 5/(4x). They complete the job in 36 minutes, so 5/(4x) = 1/36. Solving for x gives x = 45 minutes for the baker and 4x = 180 minutes for the assistant.

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