Question

5 men can complete a job in 8 days. How many days will it take 12 men to do the same job? &​

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

Let W denotes the whole work required to complete the given job.

It is mentioned that 5 men can complete the whole work W in 8 days. So 1 man in 1 day can complete the amount of work = W/(5*8) = W/40

Let N denotes the number of more days required by (8 =) 17 men to complete this left over work W/40 . Therefore we get the following equation,

N*17*(W/40) =