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A painter can paint 20 windows in 5 days. If he has to paint 50 pairs of windows, how much time will he take to paint them?

Answer 1

10 i think im not sure

Answer 2

it would be 12.5

Answer 3

OK so it would take him 10 days to paint 40 and that leaves you with 10 and half of 20 is ten to therefore it is 12.5 because you need half of 5 days for the last 10

Answer 4

Is this work okay? This is what I did and I am not sure if I am correct or not.

20/5=4 windows in one day
50/4?

Answer 5

yep thats correct

Answer 6

Okay. Thanks all of you for your help. Loved it.

Answer 7

me?
oh no problem :)

Answer 8

A short question @dumbo. What does 50 pairs of windows mean. Like 50*2 or 50?

Answer 9

pair means 2. so 50 pairs = 50x 2

Answer 10

pair equals to so yes but they put that in there to confuse you

Answer 11

So it just means 50?

Answer 12

@Disco619 IS UR USERNAME DUMBO?!?!?! I THOUGHT SO (rofl)

Answer 13

No, it means 100 windows

Answer 14

pretty much yep

Answer 15

@Disco619 u are confusing this person (facepalm)

Answer 16

Same like, 1 pair of socks contains 2 socks. Which means 2 pairs of socks contain 4 socks.

Answer 17

But this is not neccasary information @Disco619

Answer 18

Cuz I thought that a window has two panels of glass. That makes a window I believe.