Question

It takes a girl 55 minutes to deliver the papers on her route. if her brother helps, it takes only 20 minutes. how long would it take her brother to deliver the papers by himself? if necessary, round to 1 decimal place.

Answer 1

27 mins I believe is ur answer.

Answer 2

Answer- 31.11 minutes

Let 'T' be the total number of newspapers.

Newspapers distributed by girl alone in 55 minutes = T

Newspapers distributed by girl alone in 1 minute = T/55

Newspapers distributed by girl and boy in 20 minutes = T

Newspapers distributed by girl and boy in 1 minutes = T/20

Newspapers distributed by boy alone in 1 minute = T/20 - T/55 = 7T/220

On solving, total time taken by boy to distribute newspapers = 31.11 minutes