Question

carl can paint a room 3hours faster than jennifer can. If they work together, they can complete the job in 2 hours. using complete sentences explain each step in figuring out how to determine the time it would take jennifer to complete this job on her own.

Answer 1

So carl can paint a room 3 hours faster than Jennifer, which means j=c+3
in one hour carl paints 1/c of the room and jennifer paints 1/j