It takes Ms. Campbell 5 times as long as it takes Ms. Dorsey to paint a room. If Ms. Dorsey
helps Ms. Campbell, they can paint the room together in four hours. How long does it take each to paint the room individually?
PLEASE HELP

Dorsey = 4.8 hours

Campbell = 24 hours

Step-by-step explanation:

It takes "x" hours for Dorsey

So, it will take 5 times more for Campbell, so

It takes "5x" hours for Campbell

Rate is inverse of time, so rates are:

Dorsey: 1/x

Campbell: 1/5x

We know Rate * Time = Work

When together, it takes 4 hours to finish a work, so we can write:

Solving for x, we get the time of Dorsey:

Dorsey takes 4.8 hours alone

Campbell takes 4.8 * 5 = 24 hours alone

, and

for

step-by-step explanation:

we can analyze the pattern at which the terms increase. let us denote , , , so that we can call

note the following:

the pattern: to get the next term value, we just add the next term number (e.g. 1st, 2nd, to the previous term value (term values are the given numbers in the question, 1, 3, 6, 10, 15,

from , to get to , we add

from , to get to , we add

etc.

we need to form a recursive formula, a formula that has the next term as a function of the previous term. so a possible recursive formula can be

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