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Stark and Roggers are both baking pies. stark can make M pies per hour; Roggers can make J pies per hour. stark begins baking pies alone, but later Roggers joins him. If 100 pies are finished x hours after Roggers joins stark, how many pies has stark already made by the time Roggers begins to help?


(1) Working together stark and Roggers can bake 25 pies per hour.

(2) Once Roggers arrives, Stark and Roggers complete the remainder of the pies in 2 hours.

From the question stem we can create this equation M + (M+J) * x = 100

We need to find the variables in that equation in order to solve it.

statement 1 provides us with M+J but that is not sufficient to find out the value of M.

Statement 2) provides us that x = 2

when we combine it we have (M+J) * x as a known variable then we can find M.

1 + 2 provides a unique answer, hence sufficient.

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Bunuel chetan2u In the problem statement, it's stated that "100 pies are finished x hours after Roggers joins Stark." This means that after Roggers joins Stark, it takes them x hours to make a total of 100 pies together. Therefore, the equation representing this situation should be:

(M + J) * x = 100

Can you please suggest whether this interpretation is correct?
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Bunuel chetan2u In the problem statement, it's stated that "100 pies are finished x hours after Roggers joins Stark." This means that after Roggers joins Stark, it takes them x hours to make a total of 100 pies together. Therefore, the equation representing this situation should be:

(M + J) * x = 100

Can you please suggest whether this interpretation is correct?

No, that will not be correct.
The question states that initially Stark works alone and then after Rogers joins Stark, 100 pies are completed.
So these 100 pies were made not only when both were working together but also when Stark was working alone.
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