A contractor employed 150 workers to finish a piece of work in a certain fixed number of days. On the first day, all 150 workers worked. He dropped four workers on the second day, four more workers on the third day and so on. In this way, eight extra days were required to finish the work. Find the number of days in which the work was to be completed originally.
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