Machines and purify air at different constant rates. Machine , operating alone for 5 hours, purified the air within part of one floor of a building; then Machine , operating alone for 4 hours, purified the air within the rest of the floor. How many hours would it have taken Machine operating alone to purify the air in the entire floor?
- purified one cubic foot of air per minute.
- purified fifty percent more air in 5 hours than purified in 4 hours.