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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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Hung Woei Neoh
May 3, 2016

Bobby can build a house in 24 24 days, this means that he can build 1 24 \dfrac{1}{24} of a house in 1 1 day.

Similarly, Danny can build 1 36 \dfrac{1}{36} of a house in a day, and Andy can build 1 27 \dfrac{1}{27} of a house in a day.

Now, Bobby and Danny worked together for 8 8 days. Each day, they can build 1 24 + 1 36 = 5 72 \dfrac{1}{24} + \dfrac{1}{36} = \dfrac{5}{72} of a house. In the 8 8 days they worked together, they built 8 × 5 72 = 5 9 8 \times \dfrac{5}{72} = \dfrac{5}{9} of a house.

The rest of the work will be continued and finished by Andy. This means that Andy has 1 5 9 = 4 9 1 - \dfrac{5}{9} = \dfrac{4}{9} of the house remaining to build. Now, let the time taken by Andy be x x days. We know that:

1 27 × x = 4 9 \dfrac{1}{27} \times x = \dfrac{4}{9}

Therefore,

x = 4 9 × 27 = 12 x = \dfrac{4}{9} \times 27 = \boxed{12}

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"

Thanks for your suggestion

Fidel Simanjuntak - 5 years, 1 month ago
Finn C
May 16, 2016

Good question, tons of people in my class get that one wrong!!! (sometimes including me)

Thank you, sir.

Fidel Simanjuntak - 4 years, 11 months ago

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