SOLUTION: It takes 10 days for 4 men working 6 hours a day to complete some work. How many days will 3 men working 8 hours a day take to complete the same work?

Question 946457: It takes 10 days for 4 men working 6 hours a day to complete some work. How many days will 3 men working 8 hours a day take to complete the same work?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Look at the time in hours for 1 job. Each man has the rate of r job per hours.

For n men working the rate is n*r.

Handle the question first by looking for how many hours for the three men.
, for the one job, and this must be the same quantity of job as .

Remember, for now, t is how many HOURS of work.
;

, HOURS.

This is 10 days, because as given, 8 hours per day.
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