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Two people can paint half a fence in two hours.
How long does it take four people to paint a whole fence?
Solution:
If two people take 2 hours to paint half a fence they will take 4 hours to paint a whole fence.
Four people will be able to paint it twice as fast so it would take 2 hours.
