SOLUTION: One carpenter can complete a kitchen in 8 days. With the help of another carpenter, they can do the job together in 4 days. How long would it take the second carpenter if he work

Question 105584: One carpenter can complete a kitchen in 8 days. With the help of another carpenter, they can do the job together in 4 days. How long would it take the second carpenter if he worked alone?
Answer by askmemath(368) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If the carpenter takes 8days to finish the job, in 1 day he will do of work.
Similary let the other carpenter take a days to finish the job therefore he will in one day do of the work
Combined in one day they will do of the work in day
But we know that combined they take 4days to finish the job.SO in 1day they should do 1/4 of the work

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