if it takes 9 workers 15 days to do a job how many days would it take with 3 more workers

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    10

    Answered by: eloji arinze marcell on Mar 23, 2011 Reply
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      how did u get that answer???

      Answered by: ishita on Mar 23, 2011 Reply
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    how????

    Answered by: ishita on Mar 23, 2011 Reply
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    5

    Answered by: shannon <3 on Mar 25, 2011 Reply
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    15 days (divided by) 9 employees = 1.667 days of work per employee

    3 additional employees (multiplied by) 1.667 days = 5.00 days of additional work

    15 days (minus) 5.0 less days with 3 new employees = 10 days

    Note: To be more specific you should convert the work day and employees to ‘hours’. This is helpful when you have some part time employees.

    Answered by: Hky Puck on Mar 26, 2011 Reply
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    What on earth are you calculating? It would make more sense to me if you multiplied the number of workers times the days required to the job. Then you have the days it would require one to finish the job with one person. Then you can divide it with the new number of workers, that is 12.

    so (9 * 15) / 12 = 11.25

    Answered by: MI on May 27, 2012 Reply
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    here work force is increase by 1/4 hence time taken will be reduced by 1/4 , hence as per inverse calculation time (days) will be reduced by the same proportion.i.e. 15*3/4 = 11.25

    Answered by: sonal nayak on Aug 09, 2012 Reply
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    it is simple answer = 20
    9 worker takes 15 days then fist take the days for one worker
    it would be 15/9= 1.667 then multiply by 3 worker answer is 5
    this means 3 additional worker would take 5 days
    Altogether it would become 20 (15+5)

    Answered by: zak on Oct 11, 2012 Reply
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      i r right, the equation for the answer is :

      9 15
      12 x

      so x is equal to 20

      x=20

      Answered by: ebadullah on Jan 01, 2013 Reply

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