Problema Solution

Three people who work fulltime are to work together on a project,but their total time on the project is to be equivalent to that of only one person working fulltime. If one of the the people budgeted for one half of his time to the project and a second person for one third of her time, what part of the third worker's time should be budgeted to this project?

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let x = the part of the third worker's time


1/2 + 1/3 + x = 1


by solving we find


x = 1/6


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1/6 of the third worker's time should be budgeted to this project.