A company has two types of machines, type R and type S. Operating at a constant rate, a machine of type R does a certain job in 36 hrs and a machine of type S does the same job in 18 hours. If the company used the same number of each type of machine to do the job in 2 hours, how many machines of type R were used?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 9 (E) 12 This is from the free Official GMAT prep tests 1 and 2 so if you haven’t done those yet: avoid this explanation. This is a work and rate question (cooperative rate). This specific type, adding a certain number of machines to get a job done […]