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Ten people take 18 days to paint a house.How many days will 6 people take to complete the same work?
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document.write( "The LCM of 10 people and and 6 people is 30 people.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So we'll go from 10 people to 30 people to 6 people. \r\n" );
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document.write( "30 people is 3 times as many people as 10 people \r\n" );
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document.write( "6 people is only 1/5 as many people as 30 people.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Since 10 people take 18 days to paint a house,\r\n" );
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document.write( "3 times as many people will take only 1/3 as long to paint it.  So\r\n" );
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document.write( "30 people will take only 6 days to paint it.\r\n" );
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document.write( "But 1/5 as many people will take 5 times as long.  So\r\n" );
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document.write( "6 people will take 30 days to paint it.\r\n" );
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