SOLUTION: if 3 men can dig 6 trenches in 4 days, how many days would it take for 24 trenches to be dug by 4 men?

Question 729825: if 3 men can dig 6 trenches in 4 days, how many days would it take for 24 trenches to be dug by 4 men?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Rate is units of trenches per day. Find the rate of 1 man. One man is 1/3 of three men. His rate is therefore of trenches per day. This one-man rate is trench per day.

Now you have rate*time=trenches. For 4 men doing this work, , where is how many days for four men to dig 24 trenches. Find .
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