SOLUTION: A team of investigators was assigned to interview 234 people. If half the investigators conduct twice as many interviews as the other half, and the slow group interviews 12 persons

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Question 1173598: A team of investigators was assigned to interview 234 people. If half the investigators conduct twice as many interviews as the other half, and the slow group interviews 12 persons a day, how many days would it take to complete the assignment?
Answer by ikleyn(52803) About Me  (Show Source):
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            O,  it is nice lovely arithmetic problem  (!) 


If the slow team interviews 12 persons per day, then the faster team interviews 2*12 = 24 persons per day (twice as much).


Working together, they interview 12 + 24 = 36 persons per day.


Hence, the entire job will take  234%2F36 days = 6.5 days.     ANSWER

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