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Question 1011012: An office has a staff of 6 people. A certain project will take the regular staff 24 hours to complete. Assuming that all the workers will perform at this rate, How many additional workers must be employed to complete the job in 8 hours?
A) 18
B) 06
C) 12
D) 10 Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The project takes 6*24 = 144 people-hours to complete.
If you wanted to complete the task in only eight hours, you would need
144/8 = 18 people.
Thus you would need twelve additional people.
Choice C.
