Bobby can build a house in 24 days. Danny can build the same house in 36 days. Andy can build the same house in 27 days. If Bobby and Danny work together for 8 days, and will be continued by Andy, how long does Andy take to complete the remaining work?
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Bobby can build a house in 2 4 days, this means that he can build 2 4 1 of a house in 1 day.
Similarly, Danny can build 3 6 1 of a house in a day, and Andy can build 2 7 1 of a house in a day.
Now, Bobby and Danny worked together for 8 days. Each day, they can build 2 4 1 + 3 6 1 = 7 2 5 of a house. In the 8 days they worked together, they built 8 × 7 2 5 = 9 5 of a house.
The rest of the work will be continued and finished by Andy. This means that Andy has 1 − 9 5 = 9 4 of the house remaining to build. Now, let the time taken by Andy be x days. We know that:
2 7 1 × x = 9 4
Therefore,
x = 9 4 × 2 7 = 1 2
Note: The wording of the question seems a bit off to me. When the question says "how long does it take to finish their job", I would assume that the question is asking the total time taken by the 3 of them to finish it in that manner. A better way to phrase it would be: "how long does Andy take to complete the remaining work"