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Eight stock clerks can stock 26,000 cans in 10 hrs. How long will it take 5 such clerks to stock 16,250 cans?
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document.write( "Without using algebra, just basic math.  Were you supposed to\r\n" );
document.write( "use algebra? If so post again or email me.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Rule:\r\n" );
document.write( "If you start with this:\r\n" );
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document.write( "W workers can do J jobs in H hours.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then if you multiply or divide any two of the quantities\r\n" );
document.write( "W, J, and H each by any positive number, leaving the third \r\n" );
document.write( "quantity as it is, then the resulting statement will be \r\n" );
document.write( "true. \r\n" );
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document.write( "8 stock clerks can stock 26,000 cans in 10 hrs.\r\n" );
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document.write( "To see what 1 stock clerk can do, let's divide the quantities \r\n" );
document.write( "8 and 26,000 by 8, leaving the 10 hours as it is:  \r\n" );
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document.write( "1 stock clerks can stock 3250 cans in 10 hrs.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now to see what 5 stock clerks can do, let's multiply the quantities \r\n" );
document.write( "1 and 3250 by 5, leaving the 10 hours as it is.\r\n" );
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document.write( "5 stock clerks can stock 16,250 cans in 10 hrs.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Hey, we need go no further, because it just so happened that \r\n" );
document.write( "that accidentally turned out to be the desired number, 16,250 \r\n" );
document.write( "cans. (That won't just happen in most problems, but it did \r\n" );
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document.write( "So the answer is 10 hours.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Edwin \r\n" );
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