SOLUTION: If it takes 32 people to get a job done in 22 days, how many people would it take to complete the job in 16 days ? I know the answer is 44, but how do we work out the problem ?THAN

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Question 276118: If it takes 32 people to get a job done in 22 days, how many people would it take to complete the job in 16 days ? I know the answer is 44, but how do we work out the problem ?THANKS !
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If 32 people can do the job in 22 days, then one person can do of the job in 22 days, and further, one person can do of the job in one day. Then it would take one person 704 days to do the whole job, so it would take people to do the job in 16 days.


John