document.write( "Question 971884: 3 workers can do a job in 36 days. How long would it take 2 workers to finish the same job? \n" ); document.write( "

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3 workers can do a job in 36 days. How long would it take 2 workers to finish
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document.write( "Here's an easier way, at least an easier way to REMEMBER how to do\r\n" );
document.write( "ALL proportion problems, using common sense:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Common sense tells us that the answer is going to be MORE than 36 days,\r\n" );
document.write( "because it takes less workers longer.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Take the two given quantities that CORRESPOND, namely 3 workers and 2 workers.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Put one over the other so that the fraction will be MORE than 1.\r\n" );
document.write( "That fraction is 3/2 \r\n" );
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document.write( "            [it's not 2/3 because 2/3 would be LESS than 1].\r\n" );
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document.write( "So multiply 36 days by  and get 54 days.\r\n" );
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document.write( "[Note: In other proportional problems when common sense tells us that the answer will\r\n" );
document.write( "be LESS than the other, we make the fraction of the given corresponding quantities\r\n" );
document.write( "so that it will be LESS than 1.]\r\n" );
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