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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?

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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?

anonymous · Answer

10 i think im not sure

anonymous · Answer

it would be 12.5

anonymous · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

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

calculusxy · Answer

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?

anonymous · Answer

yep thats correct

calculusxy · Answer

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

anonymous · Answer

me?
oh no problem :)

calculusxy · Answer

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

disco619 · Answer

pair means 2. so 50 pairs = 50x 2

anonymous · Answer

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

calculusxy · Answer

So it just means 50?

anonymous · Answer

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

disco619 · Answer

No, it means 100 windows

anonymous · Answer

pretty much yep

anonymous · Answer

@Disco619  u are confusing this person (facepalm)

disco619 · Answer

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

anonymous · Answer

But this is not neccasary information @Disco619

calculusxy · Answer

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

disco619 · Answer

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