SOLUTION: A team of investigators was assigned to interview 234 people. If half the investigators conduct twice as many interviews as the other half, and the slow group interviews 12 persons

Question 1173598: A team of investigators was assigned to interview 234 people. If half the investigators conduct twice as many interviews as the other half, and the slow group interviews 12 persons a day, how many days would it take to complete the assignment?
Answer by ikleyn(52803) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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O, it is nice lovely arithmetic problem (!)

If the slow team interviews 12 persons per day, then the faster team interviews 2*12 = 24 persons per day (twice as much).


Working together, they interview 12 + 24 = 36 persons per day.


Hence, the entire job will take   days = 6.5 days.     ANSWER

Solved.

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