SOLUTION: 100 men can finish a work in 100 days. Every day two men leaves the work. Then how many days eill the work take to finish.

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Question 886586: 100 men can finish a work in 100 days. Every day two men leaves the work. Then how many days eill the work take to finish.
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056) About Me  (Show Source):
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The job can't possibly get finished because all 100 men will have left in 50 days.
Even if they'd all stayed for 50 days, the job would only be half done, so the job
will be a lot less than half done on the fiftieth day when the last 2 men leave.

Edwin