Word Problem 7
Problem 7: A gang of laborers promise to do a piece of work in 10 days, but five of them become absent. If the rest of the gang do the same work in 12 days, the original number of men is;
a. 30 b. 45 c. 25 d. 15
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Solution:
We suppose that initially there were ‘y’ laborers or men. and later when five of them went away there number became ‘y-5’.
Now we arrange data as under;
It is inverse proportion relation thats why we put arrows in opposite directions
Form this arrangement;
I-e original number of men was 30