SOLUTION: three workers can paint a house in 14 days. assuming that the workers work at the same rate, how many more workers need to be hired to finish painting the house 8 days earlier?

Question 884395: three workers can paint a house in 14 days. assuming that the workers work at the same rate, how many more workers need to be hired to finish painting the house 8 days earlier?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
three workers can paint a house in 14 days
So, each painter's rate of working is:
( 1/3 house ) / ( 14 days ) =
( 1 house ) / ( 42 days )
------------------------------------
8 days earlier is days
-----------------------------------
A total of 7 painters can work at a rate of:
or 1 house in 6 days
-----------------------------------
That means there needs to be
additional painters

RELATED QUESTIONS
Ten workers can paint a house in six days. Working at the same rate, how many days will... (answered by Alan3354)

Five workers paint four houses in six days. Working at the same rate as these workers,... (answered by promotion analysis,ankor@dixie-net.com)

if 3 workers can finish painting a house in 2 days, how many days will it take 6 workers (answered by josgarithmetic,josmiceli,ikleyn)

If a crew of 9 workers can paint a house in 14 days. How long will it take a crew of 5 to (answered by ankor@dixie-net.com)

8 workers can paint a building in 24 days.How many days will 18 workers take to paint the (answered by Theo)

8 workers can paint a building in 24 days . How many days will 18 workers take to paint... (answered by bdolan911)

If 4 workers can paint a house in 8 hours, then 2 workers can paint the same house in... (answered by ptaylor)

5 Workers can build a road in 20 days. suppose every worker works at the same rate. if... (answered by ankor@dixie-net.com)

If it take 5 workers 6 hours to paint an office, how long does it take 8 workers to paint (answered by Tobiasz,edjones,Alan3354,richwmiller)