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Orange Outlook (Posted on 2014-07-22) Difficulty: 3 of 5
A team of three men Andy, Boyd and Cole and a boy Jim are to collect some oranges from an orchard.
  1. Jim can shake the oranges off the trees as fast as three men can together gather them.
  2. Any one of Andy, Boyd and Cole can shake 5 oranges off the trees as fast as two of the men and Jim can gather 4 oranges.
  3. Everyone worked the whole time in the most effective way, either shaking or gathering oranges.
  4. The total payment received by the team was $500 and the money was disbursed based on how fast each member could shake and gather oranges.
Derive the amount of money received by each team member.

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Equations < UnknownsLarry2014-07-23 14:34:05
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