Number of days?

Algebra Level 3

3 men or 6 women can do a work in 15 days.

2 men worked for 3 days on the work.

The remaining work was completed by 3 women.

Let the women complete the remaining job in x x days, then what is x x ?


The answer is 26.

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1 solution

Chew-Seong Cheong
Apr 17, 2017

Let the work mentioned in the problem be W W and the rates of doing work of a man and woman be m m and w w respectively. Then we have:

{ 3 × 15 m = 45 m = W m = W 45 6 × 15 w = 90 w = W w = W 90 m = 2 w \begin{cases} 3 \times 15 m = 45 m = W & \implies m = \dfrac W{45} \\ 6 \times 15 w = 90 w = W & \implies w = \dfrac W{90} \end{cases} \implies m = 2w

And:

2 × 3 m + 3 x w = W Note that W = 90 w 6 m + 3 x w = 90 w Note that m = 2 w 12 w + 3 x w = 90 w x = 90 12 3 = 78 3 = 26 \begin{aligned} 2\times 3m + 3x w & = \color{#3D99F6} W & \small \color{#3D99F6} \text{Note that }W=90w \\ {\color{#D61F06}6m} + 3x w & = \color{#3D99F6} 90w & \small \color{#D61F06} \text{Note that }m=2w \\ {\color{#D61F06}12w} + 3xw & = 90w \\ \implies x & = \frac {90-12}3 \\ & = \frac {78}3 \\ & =\boxed{ 26} \end{aligned}

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