Microworld: Algebra of Work Problems
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Author:David and Anne Dudley

This 21 page Mathwright Microworld develops in careful detail strategies for analyzing and solving problems in which a number of workers with different abilities (rates of work) collaborate to accomplish a job together. The reader is coaxed through the solution of a fairly complex problem of this type in gentle and easily assimilable steps.

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Algebra of Work Problems
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