If it takes Kelly 4 hours to make a pan of cookies but it takes Morgan 3 hours to

make a pan of cookies, how long will it take them to make a pan of cookies if they
work together? How long will it take to make 4 pans of cookies?
Work
Time together/time alone +time together/time alone = 1 job
This makes our equation (x/4)+(x/3)=1 b/c we plugged in the given amounts
Then we multiply by the least common denominator 12(x/4)+(x/3)=1(12)
3x+4x=12
Then we solve for x 7x=12

= 1.7 hours or 1 hour 42 minutes

to bake a

pan of cookies together

1 Way to figure out how long it takes to make 4 pans of cookies together is cross
multiply, because we know how long it takes to make 1 pan of cookies together.
1.7/1 pan = x/4 pans

Cross multiply 1.7 by 4 pans and 1 pan by x hours

It will take 6.8 hours to bake 4 pans of cookies together

Another way to figure this out would be to make it a linear function
F(x)=1.7x

plug 4 in for x to find your answer

It takes 6.8 hours to bake 4 pans of cookies together