Question

Working together, it takes two computers 12 minutes to send out a company's email. If it takes the slower computer 30 minutes to do the job on its own, how

long will it take the faster computer to do the job on its own?
Do not do any rounding?

Answer 1

The faster computer will complete the job in 20 minutes alone.

Explanation:

Given that:

Time taken by both computers = 12 minutes

Time taken by slower computer = 30 minutes

Let,

x be the time taken by faster computer.

`(1)/(x)+(1)/(30) = (1)/(12)`

`(1)/(x) = (1)/(12)-(1)/(30)\\\\(1)/(x) = (5-2)/(60)\\\\(1)/(x) = (3)/(60)\\\\(1)/(x) = (1)/(20)\\\\x= 20`

Hence,

The faster computer will complete the job in 20 minutes alone.