SOLUTION: 28 tea pluckers can pluck 1260 kg of leaves in 8 hours. how many more people will be required, if 1200 kg of tea need to be plucked in 6 hours?
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Question 1082702: 28 tea pluckers can pluck 1260 kg of leaves in 8 hours. how many more people will be required, if 1200 kg of tea need to be plucked in 6 hours?
Answer by addingup(3677) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
a rate-of-work problem.
28*8 = 224 man-hours = 224*60 = 13440 minutes
13440/1200 = 11.2 man-minutes per kg
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360/11.2 = 32.14
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