Working together, Melissa and Jing can mow a lawn in 5 hours. It would take Melissa 8 hours to do the job alone.What is the value of r, the part of the lawn that Jing could complete in 1 hour?
so work=rate tmes time we have Jrate Jtime Jwork Mrate Mtime Mwork
so if Mtime and Jtime=5, Jwork+Mwork=1 lawn if Mtime=8, then Mwork=1 Mtime=8 Mwork=1 Mrate=? Mtime times Mrate=Mwork 8 times ?=1 diivde both sides by 8 ?=1/8 Mrate=1/8 lawn per 1 hour
so find Mwork for 5 hours Mwork=Mrate times Mtime Mtime=5 Mrate=1/8 Mwork=5 times 1/8 Mwork=5/8