Air Purifying Machines (Combined Rate)

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Machines and purify air at different constant rates. Machine , operating alone for 5 hours, purified the air within part of one floor of a building; then Machine , operating alone for 4 hours, purified the air within the rest of the floor. How many hours would it have taken Machine operating alone to purify the air in the entire floor?

(1) purified one cubic foot of air per minute within the 9 rooms on the floor it purified.

(2) purified fifty percent more air in 5 hours than purified in 4 hours.