three people who work full time are to work together on a project, but their total time on the project is to be equivalant to that of only one person working full time. If one of the people is budgeted for one-half of his time to the project and a second person for one-third of her time, what part of the third workers time should be budgeted to this project??

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anonymous · Answer

1-(1/2)-(1/3)

anonymous · Answer

I am confused a bit. Can you please explain that to me?

anonymous · Answer

1 represents the total time of one person

anonymous · Answer

so when we sum the portion of time each person spent it has to sum to one

anonymous · Answer

ohh, thank you so much!! :)