SOLUTION: 8 workers working at the same rate can finish some work in 16 days.After working for 4 days,2 workers felt sick and never turned back.How many days did the they take to complete th

Question 1125204: 8 workers working at the same rate can finish some work in 16 days.After working for 4 days,2 workers felt sick and never turned back.How many days did the they take to complete the work?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Say it like this:

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Eight workers, each working at the same rate, can finish a quantity of work in 16 days. After working for 4 days,2 workers felt sick and never returned back. How many days did the the remaining workers take to complete the work?
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r, the rate of 1 worker
, using "a quantity of work" as 1 whole piece of work.

The two separate numbers of workers for different time quantities, x for the unknown time quantity:

x=16
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A different try:
After the full eight worked for 4 days, of the job still needed to be done. That is, 6 workers must work for x days to complete of the job.

16 more days
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