20 points shawn and ellie are construction workers. shawn can complete a concrete job in 4 hours, while ellie can complete it in 6 hours. the foreman says that it will take them 5 hours to complete it if they work together. explain each step in solving this equation, and determine if the foreman is correct or not.

Work problems are solved by first figuring out how much of the job they can do  in each hour. Shawn can do 1/4 of the job in an hour and Ellie can do 1/6 of the job in an hour. 1/6+1/4=2/12+3/12=5/12. This means that they can do 5/12 of the job an hour. This means that together they can do the job in 2 2/5 hours. The foreman is obviously wrong because first of all Shawn can do it alone in 4 hours, so with Ellie he will do it faster, and second of all 2 2/5<5. Hope this helped!