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Xeno completes a work in 12 days and Yahle completes the same work in 24 days. If both of them work together, how many days would they require to complete the work?


The answer is 8.

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31 solutions

The speed of X X is 1 12 work day \frac{1}{12} \frac{\text{work}}{\text{day}} and the speed of Y Y is 1 24 work day \frac{1}{24} \frac{\text{work}}{\text{day}} . Together, their speed becomes 1 12 + 1 24 = 1 8 work day \frac{1}{12} + \frac{1}{24} = \frac{1}{8 }\frac{\text{work}}{\text{day}} .

It is very clear that they will complete 1 1 work after 8 8 days now.

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Anirudha Nayak - 7 years, 5 months ago

nicely solved

Devesh Rai - 7 years, 5 months ago

Greatest solution. Very simple.

Gerson Ruiz - 7 years, 5 months ago

SO NICE :(

Žâhrââ Âbbãš - 7 years, 5 months ago

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Why the sad face? :( Be happy :)

Guilherme Dela Corte - 7 years, 5 months ago

that's it :)

ramim Hossain - 7 years, 5 months ago

use "product over sum" method ^^

Joey Andaya - 7 years, 5 months ago

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Would it still work if we had, like, 3 3 or more workers?

Guilherme Dela Corte - 7 years, 5 months ago

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Yes, it does - so long as you know the time for each of them to complete one work

Callum Farnden - 7 years, 3 months ago

you can picture the problem as two bodies one of them is twice the speed of the other each at one end of a distance x ,the solution is the time taken for the two bodies to meet at the middle to cover the whole distance x.

Mohamed Mohamed Dehairy - 7 years, 4 months ago

to solve this question we must know how many work that was done by each worker in one day

if, in 12 days xeno completes a work. in 1 day xeno complete 12 d a y s = 1 w o r k 12 days = 1 work 1 d a y s = 1 12 w o r k 1 days = \frac{1}{12} work if, in 24 days yahle completes a work, in 1 day yahle complete 24 d a y s = 1 w o r k 24 days = 1 work 1 d a y s = 1 24 w o r k 1 days = \frac{1}{24} work because yahle and xena work together, so in 1 day both of them complete 1 d a y s = 1 12 w o r k + 1 24 w o r k 1 days = \frac{1}{12} work + \frac{1}{24} work 1 d a y s = 1 8 w o r k 1 days = \frac{1}{8} work if, in 1 days both of them complete 1/8 work. in 8 days they can complete 8 d a y s = 1 8 w o r k × 8 8 days = \frac{1}{8} work \times 8 8 d a y s = 1 w o r k 8 days = 1 work therefore, in 8 days both of them can complete 1 work

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Aditya adi - 7 years, 5 months ago

nicely explained

Unnati Bindal - 7 years, 5 months ago

nice

Ayudhia Wijaya - 7 years, 4 months ago

That was a great explanation! Thanks!

Vaishala Thirugnanasampanthar - 7 years, 1 month ago
Ajay Maity
Dec 20, 2013

Xeno completes a work in 12 days, which means in one day he completes 1 12 \frac{1}{12} th of the work.

In x x days, Xeno will complete 1 12 × x \frac{1}{12} \times x of the work.

Yahle completes the same work in 24 days, which means in one day she completes 1 24 \frac{1}{24} th of the work.

In x x days, Yahle will complete 1 24 × x \frac{1}{24} \times x of the work.

If both of them work together and if they complete the work in x x days, then

1 12 × x + 1 24 × x = 1 \frac{1}{12} \times x + \frac{1}{24} \times x = 1

x 12 + x 24 = 1 \frac{x}{12} + \frac{x}{24} = 1

2 x + x 24 = 1 \frac{2x + x}{24} = 1

3 x 24 = 1 \frac{3x}{24} = 1

3 x = 24 3x = 24

x = 8 x = 8

That's the answer!

Maria Felicita
Dec 19, 2013

Let x=12 y=24

Then y=2x

y+x=2x+x=12 3x=12 x=4

12-4=8

but why is y + x =12?

geetanjali ashtekar - 7 years, 5 months ago

very nice

Krishna Badiginchala - 7 years, 5 months ago

its too complicated 1

Usman Naeem - 7 years, 5 months ago
Hùng Minh
Dec 20, 2013

In 1 day, Xeno completes 1/12 of work, Yahle completes 1/24 of work, and both of them will completes 1/12 + 1/24 = 1/8 of work. So, they completes the work in 8 days.

Star Light
Dec 20, 2013

Let the total units of work to be done be 24. (We decide on 24 since it is the LCM of 12 and 24).

Xeno will do 2 units of work per day. Yahle will do 1 unit of work per day.

Total Work done per day = 3 units. Hence, no of days required = 24/3 = 8 days.

We can also get the answer as the reciprocal of 1/12 + 1/24, which is again 8.

Mahmoud Fathy
Dec 19, 2013

Xeno has a rate of work which is double Yahle,s Work,so to make it easier lets assume that xeno and yahle has a work of making 30 T-shirts both: so Xeno will make 30 shirts in 12 days so his speed of making shirts is 2.5 shirts /day Yahle in the other hand will make 30 shirts in 24 days so his speed of making shirts must be 1.25 shirt / day Summing up Yahle and Xeno speed per day will give us the speed of making shirts per day which will be 3.75 shirt/ day Dividing the number of shirts which is 30 shirts by 3.75 (speed) will give us the number of days needed

(1/24) + (1/12) = 1/8. so, they can finish the work about 8 days.

Albert Monzon
Dec 25, 2013

xeno=12days yhale=24days

zeno+yhale=??

xeno = 1/12 yhale= 1/24

C=x+y

1/12 + 1/24

2/24 + 1/24

3/24 invert = 24/3 = {8}

Muzzammal Alfath
Dec 24, 2013

(1/12)+(1/24)=1/x, then 1/x=3/24, then answer x=8

Ajinkya Mohadkar
Dec 21, 2013

Time taken to complete work = Bigger No/Sum of Ratios. Therefore, Bigger No is 24. 24/(12:24) = 1:2 Hence. No. of days = 24/(1+2) = 24/3 = 8 Days

Sadler Johnson
Dec 21, 2013

Let's say that the work is painting 12 bricks. Xeno can paint at the rate of 1 brick per day. Yahle can paint 1 2 \frac{1}{2} a brick per day. After the first day of working together they will have painted 3 2 \frac{3}{2} bricks. To find how many days they would need to complete the work one divides the number of bricks by the daily rate.

12 bricks at 3 2 \frac{3}{2} per day will be 8 days.

In a day, Xeno would do 1/12 of his work; Yahle would finish 1/24 of his work. If they worked together, they'd do 1/12 + 1/24 = 1/8 of the work a day. So, it would take them 8 days to complete the work.

Gerson Ruiz
Dec 20, 2013

My idea of solving this problem is just dividing 100% of the work by the days Xeno worked and that give me 8.33% per day. Then, Yahle worked 100% / 24 days and give me 4.16% of work per day. If we add this quantities, gives 12.49% per day. Then 100% divided by 12.49 gives us 8.0...something. And we can assume that, Xeno and Yahle working together, will finish the work in 8 days.

Rich Belen
Dec 20, 2013

let x = the amount of days that the two people to work together, so that

x 12 + x 24 = 1 \frac{x}{12}+\frac{x}{24}=1

2 x + x 24 = 1 \frac{2x+x}{24}=1

3 x = 24 3x=24

x = 8 x=8

Marwan Sallam
Dec 20, 2013

Since it takes Xeno to complete a work in 12 days, then every day he completes 1/12 or 2/24 the work.. And since it takes Yahle to complete the work in 24 days . Each days she completes 1/24 the work. If we add them both together, each day they complete 3/24 the work. Now using the recipricol of the fraction 24/3 , the answer is 8

Prasun Biswas
Dec 20, 2013

Xeno does total work in 12 days and Yahle does total work in 24 days.

So, in 1 day, Xeno does 1 12 \frac{1}{12} part and Yahle does 1 24 \frac{1}{24} part of the work.

Both do ( 1 12 \frac{1}{12} + 1 24 \frac{1}{24} ) = ( 2 + 1 ) 24 \frac{(2+1)}{24} = 3 24 \frac{3}{24} = 1 8 \frac{1}{8} part of work in one day together.

So, they do total work in = 1 1 / 8 \frac{1}{1/8} = 8 \boxed{8} days.

Ramchandra Gawas
Dec 20, 2013

let P be work p1 be the work rate of Xeno and p2 be the work rate of Yahle P=p1 12 P=p2 24 so p1 & p2 are P/12 and P/24 resp.| now, time= work / work rate work rate together= p1+p2 time = P/ (P/8) =8

James Ding
Dec 19, 2013

In 1 day, Xeno would have done 1/12 of the work, and Yahle would have done 1/24 of the work.

So, if they work together, they would accomplish (1/12+1/24=1/8) of the work in 1 day.

Thus 8 days are required to complete the work if they work together.

Both do 1/8 work in a day so 8 is the answer.

Ffariaaria Khan
Mar 25, 2014

1/12+1/24=3/24 reciprocal due to time and work because with respect of time we do work so we reciprocal it as a 24/3

Rekha Rani
Mar 14, 2014

x complete work in 1/12 days. work/day. y complete work in 1/24 days. work/day. if both work together 1/12+1/24=3/24.
=1/8.
with in 8 days both can complete work.

Shreya R
Feb 22, 2014

When they work together, total work can be done together= 3/24=1/8. We then formulate the equation (1/12+1/24)x= 1 . Solving x, we get the number of days required i.e= 8

Anandhu Raj
Feb 17, 2014

Work done by Xeno in 1 day= 1 12 \frac {1}{12} . Work done by Yahle in 1 day= 1 24 \frac {1}{24} . Therefore,work done by both in 1 day= 1 12 \frac {1}{12} + 1 24 \frac {1}{24} = 1 8 \frac {1}{8} . Therefore,time taken by both of them together to finish work = 8 days.

Callum Farnden
Feb 14, 2014

Y works at half the pace of X,

X+Y works at 1.5 times the pace of X

X takes 12 days,

Y+X=12/1.5

=8days

Lucky Khan
Jan 27, 2014

coz they has 1:2 in regards to time consumption

Bijju Tarun
Jan 18, 2014

Let us divide the total work into pieces. that is UNIT WORKS since xenon completes Total work in 12 days, so let us divide total work into 12 UNITS OF WORK xenon ------------1Day-------------1Unit of work (UW) Yahle-------------2Days-----------1Unit of work it means he completes 0.5 Unit of work in one day if both together works for one day they will complete 1.5 units of work Total UNITS OF WORKS = 12 (work of xenon and yahle)X(no of days) = Total UNITS OF WORK 1.5*Days=12 Days=8 ANS = 8 DAYS

Kevin Mo
Jan 17, 2014

Find the work rate of both. It can be shown as 1 x work done per day. \frac{1}{x} \text{ work done per day.} Xeno: 1 12 \text{Xeno: } \frac{1}{12}

Yahle: 1 24 \text{Yahle: } \frac{1}{24}

When you add the two work rates together, you will get the work rate of both of them working at the same time.

1 12 + 1 24 = 1 x \frac{1}{12} + \frac{1}{24} = \frac{1}{x}

Where x is the days where both are working.

Solve.

2 24 + 1 24 = 1 x \frac{2}{24} + \frac{1}{24} = \frac{1}{x}

3 24 = 1 x \frac{3}{24} = \frac{1}{x}

3 x = 24 3x = 24

x = 8 x = 8

So the days that both are working together are 8 days. \boxed{8 \text{ days.}}

John Palmer
Jan 6, 2014

Xeno completes one work in 12 days, so 1work/12 days. Yahle completes the same work in 24 days, so 1 work/12 days. if they both work together you add the two fractions. 1/12 + 1/24 = 3/24 = 8.

Imad Fatimy
Jan 6, 2014

By using rates, 1/12+ 1/24=1/x That gives us: 1/8=1/x so x=8

Tushar Garg
Jan 6, 2014

1/12 + 1/24 = 1/8 AMOUNT OF WORK IN 1 DAY SO , 8 DAYS TO COMPLETE 1 WORK TOGETHER

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