SOLUTION: If 9 painters can paint a house in 5 hours, how many painters are needed to do the same job in only 3 hours?
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Question 967944: If 9 painters can paint a house in 5 hours, how many painters are needed to do the same job in only 3 hours?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
painters can paint house in hrs
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that number of painters will take times
as long to paint house, so
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painter can paint house in hrs
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It will take times as many painters to paint house
in of that time, so
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painters can paint house is hrs
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