SOLUTION: working for eight hours a day, a man completes a job in 30 days. How long would it take him if he worked for five hours a day?

Question 758411: working for eight hours a day, a man completes a job in 30 days. How long would it take him if he worked for five hours a day?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39616) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Account for the number of hours! The work needs the one man to do the task for a set number of hours.

8 hours per day times 30 days = the set number of hours
hours.

Now the man works only 5 hours per day, so he still must work 240 total hours to do the job.
using d for the number of days.
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