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How many days will 1300 men take to dig trench, if 625 men can do the same in 52 days |
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Answer» For this one our output is 'trenches' and our inputs are men and days. EXPRESSING the example algebraically we have 6 trenches = 3 men times four days. 6t = 3m x 4d To generalise the input for one TRENCH, we need to CREATE a hybid unit, the 'manday'. The number of mandays is the product of its inputs. So: 6t = 12 mandays Solving for one trench gets us: t = 2 md. We can use this to solve the problem, how many days for 4 men to do 24 trenches. 24t = 48md. We can find the number of days by dividing by our KNOWN number of men. 48 md / 4 men = 12 days. |
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