Michael finished coloring a picture in 7/12 hour. Vaibhav finished colouring the same picture in 3/4 hour. Who worked longer? By what fraction was it longer?

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Philoid · Accepted Answer

Time taken by Michael to colour a picture = hour

Also,

Time taken by Vaibhav to colour a picture = hour

First of all we have to convert them into like fractions, we get:

= =

Since,

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Therefore,

Vaibhav worked for longer period of time

Hence, the difference = –

=

Therefore,

Vaibhav worked for longer period of time by a fraction of