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| Question 517058:  it takes 9 people 1 hour to mow 6 acres of land, how many people would it take to mow 24 acres in 3 hours?
 Answer by josmiceli(19441)
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You can put this solution on YOUR website! If it took 1 hour for 9 people to mow 6 acres of land, It would take 4 times as many people to mow 4 times
 as much land in the same amount of time, so
 36 people can mow 24 acres in 1 hour
 If you give them 3 times as long to mow it, you only
 need 1/3 as many people, so
 12 people can mow 24 acres in 3 hours
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