Two Workers Building A House

Algebra Level 1

Person A works twice as fast as person B.
Person B can complete a piece of work independently in 12 days.
Find the number of days taken by person A and B together to finish the work.


The answer is 4.

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4 solutions

Sonveer Yadav
Mar 12, 2016

Since A works twice as fast as B so he completes it in 6 days
Part of work done by A in 1 day = 1 6 \frac {1}{6} .
Part of work done by B in 1 day = 1 12 \frac{1}{12} .
1 day work of both A and B = 1 6 + 1 12 \frac{1}{6} + \frac{1}{12} .
= 3 12 \frac{3}{12} = 1 4 \frac{1}{4} .
No. of days they take to finish the work = 4


A = 2B

If B completes in 12 days, A completes in 6 days Independently.

If A+B = 3B

If 1 B completes work in 12 days then 3 B workers can complete in

B = 12 3 \frac{12}{3} = 4 \boxed4

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Carol Fisher
Mar 21, 2016

z/6 + z/12 = 1 where z = days to complete house

Sai Kiran
Mar 8, 2016

Speed of B --- 1/12 Speed of A -- 1/6

So A+B combined speed = 1/12 + 1/6 = 1/4

So total days they can finish the work ====>4

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