A candymaker has two machines. One can turn out one hundred pieces of divinity in one hour; the other, an older machine, can do the same in one hour and twenty minutes. Working together and starting at the same time, how many hours would it take for them to make 10,000 pieces of divinity?

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Bob gets paid an hour for the regular hours he works and an hour for any overtime hours he works. All hours over 40 in a week are considered overtime. If Bob works 44 hours this week, how much did he make?

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Jess has a square garden with a length of 5 feet in which there are four kinds of flowers. There are ten tulips, three roses, four petunias, and three lilies. What is the probability of picking a tulip?

Julie sells cars. She has a monthly salary of $1000 and a commission of $500 for each car sold. How much money will she make this month if she sells 7 cars?

Machine A can produce 4 books in 2 days. Machine B can produce 20 books in 4 days. How many books can machines A and B, working together, produce in 40 days?

A candymaker specializes in making "turtles" (pecan caramel candies). She has two machines - a newer machine, which can make one hundred turtles in seventy minutes, and an older machine, which can make one hundred turtles in ninety minutes.

She wants to make one hundred boxes of turtles, each of which holds forty turtles. How many hours would it take for both machines, working together, to produce enough turtles to fill those boxes?

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John sells cloths. His monthly salary is dollars plus a commission of dollars for each cloth sold. If he sells cloths this month, how much money does he make in dollars?

A bakery has a machine that can make two hundred loaves of bread in one hour, and a machine that can make three hundred loaves of bread in one hour. How many hours will it take for the two machines together to make 10,000 loaves of bread?

Steve can paint his greenhouse in four hours working alone; his ten-year-old son can paint the greenhouse alone in nine hours. Working together, how long, to the nearest minute, would it take them?

Tom works in a mall and sells shoes. His monthly salary is dollars plus a commission of dollars for every pair of shoes that he sells. How many pairs of shoes must he sell to earn dollars per month.