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When Jack picks olives for two hours at three times his regular speed, he picks 10 pounds of olives more than Mac working for five hours at 80% of his regular speed. Therefore, if Mac picks olives for one hour at double his regular speeds, and Jack picks olives for four hours at 75% of his regular speed, then

A. Jack picks double the amount of olives Mac picks
B. Mac picks 10 pounds more than Jack
C. Jack picks 10 pounds more than Mac
D. Mac picks 5 more pounds than Jack
E. Jack picks 5 more pounds than Mac

Does anyone have an elegant solution for this?

The solution presents a algebraic brute forcer, but I think some of you guys could do this better. I will post the solution if there are inquiries.
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When Jack picks olives for two hours at three times his regular speed, he picks 10 pounds of olives more than Mac working for five hours at 80% of his regular speed. Therefore, if Mac picks olives for one hour at double his regular speeds, and Jack picks olives for four hours at 75% of his regular speed, then

Jack picks double the amount of olives Mac picks
Mac picks 10 pounds more than Jack
Jack picks 10 pounds more than Mac
Mac picks 5 more pounds than Jack
Jack picks 5 more pounds than Mac

Does anyone have an elegant solution for this?

The solution presents a algebraic brute forcer, but I think some of you guys could do this better. I will post the solution if there are inquiries.

Let's say Jack's regular speed is J olives/hr and Mac's regular speed is M olives/hr

Given:
2*3J = 10 + 5*(4/5)M
3J = 5 + 2M

Question: " if Mac picks olives for one hour at double his regular speeds, and Jack picks olives for four hours at 75% of his regular speed"

Mac picks 2M and Jack picks 4*(3/4)J = 3J
They are asking you for the relation between 3J and 2M. You already know 3J = 5 + 2M
So Jack picks 5 pounds more olives than Mac.
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28 Sep 2013, 02:10
We know form the question and diagram that :

6x = 4y + 10 .....(1)

And from the diagram we need to have a relation between 3x and 2y.

Dividing (1) by 2

We have

3x = 2y + 5

Hence (E) !
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When Jack picks olives for two hours at three times his regular speed, he picks 10 pounds of olives more than Mac working for five hours at 80% of his regular speed. Therefore, if Mac picks olives for one hour at double his regular speeds, and Jack picks olives for four hours at 75% of his regular speed, then

Jack picks double the amount of olives Mac picks
Mac picks 10 pounds more than Jack
Jack picks 10 pounds more than Mac
Mac picks 5 more pounds than Jack
Jack picks 5 more pounds than Mac

Does anyone have an elegant solution for this?

The solution presents a algebraic brute forcer, but I think some of you guys could do this better. I will post the solution if there are inquiries.

Why do you use variables at all? I just plugged in Values like this:

Jack picks olives for two hours at three times his regular speed, he picks 10 pounds of olives more than Mac working for five hours at 80% of his regular speed. So, look at this;

Jack picks 30 olives and Mac picks 20 olives. Therefore Jacks regular rate is 5 olives per hour (30/2=15 divided with 3 = 5) and Mac's original rate is 5 (20/5 = 4 / 4/5 = 5). Wow they even have the same rate!!! Now what does the question ask?

Mac works for one hour at double his rate? Okay, then 2*5*1 = 10 olives for Mac.
Jack works for four hours at 3/4 his rate? Okay that is 3/4*5*4 = 15

Therefore Jack picks 5 more than Mac does.
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anon1 wrote:
When Jack picks olives for two hours at three times his regular speed, he picks 10 pounds of olives more than Mac working for five hours at 80% of his regular speed. Therefore, if Mac picks olives for one hour at double his regular speeds, and Jack picks olives for four hours at 75% of his regular speed, then

A. Jack picks double the amount of olives Mac picks
B. Mac picks 10 pounds more than Jack
C. Jack picks 10 pounds more than Mac
D. Mac picks 5 more pounds than Jack
E. Jack picks 5 more pounds than Mac

Does anyone have an elegant solution for this?

The solution presents a algebraic brute forcer, but I think some of you guys could do this better. I will post the solution if there are inquiries.

let j=Jack's rate; m=Mac's rate
3j*2-10=(4m/5)*5
m=(3j-5)/2
substituting, ratio between Jack's and Mac's outputs=
[(3j/4)*4]/[2*(3j-5)/2]=3j/(3j-5)
J picks 5 more pounds than M
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