SOLUTION: 60 man can build a wall in 4o days.5 mens quits in every 10 days. how many days required to build the wall?

Question 876178: 60 man can build a wall in 4o days.5 mens quits in every 10 days. how many days required to build the wall?

Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, MathTherapy:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Starting with the one-man rate would be most comfortable.

One man works at the rate of walls/day. In a simple way, setup some terms to start building an equation equaling to one wall.

-----Forty days
-------Forty days

What you can do with this is use the forty-day equation, and add a term in which the time quantity is a variable, to be solved. This term is , and make the equation equal to 1.

, solve for d.
Answer by MathTherapy(10555) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

60 man can build a wall in 4o days.5 mens quits in every 10 days. how many days required to build the wall?

Wall can be built in: , or days.
You can do the check!!
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