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Question 353154: John can do a piece of work in 8 days and peter can do the same piece of work in 6 days.They work together on it for two days and then peter stops working altogether.How long will it take for john to complete the remaining part of the work by himself? Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source):
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Let be the number of worker-days to do the work.
For John,
For Peter,
When they work together for 2 days,
The work that remains is,
Find the time it takes John to finish it,
days
