document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=552078>Question 552078</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> If 8 men could plough a field in 9 days, how many days would it take 18 men working at the same rate? </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "we need to find out how many man-days it takes to plough the whole field.<br>\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "It is simple to see, that if it takes 8 men 9 days to do the whole job,<br>\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "then it will take them 9*8, or 72 man-days to complete the job.<br>\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Now, we can find out how many days it would take 18 men to do the job.<br>\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "It would still take a total of 72 man-days to do the job,<br>\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "but this time, we have 18 men instead of 8.<br>\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Simply divide 72 by 18, and we will have our answer.<br>\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Thus it would take 18 men only 4 days to plough the field.<br>\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Algebraically, we would have written it:<br>\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "This type of problem is actually MUCH simpler to do than the ones involving filling pools and buckets.<br>\r<BR>\n" );
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