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Grade 1010 grade maths

  1. N workmen could have build a dam in 50 days. 80 of them did not turn up. find N, if the work took 70 days for completion.
(A) 340 (B) 320 (C) 350 (D)280

Profile image of Ashwin
11 Years agoGrade 10
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Profile image of Yash Baheti
11 Years ago
Hi,

Let talk about men days.
We are spending N man days per day and it will take 50 days to complete.
But now we have only N-80 man days of work per day so :
50N = (N-80)X
X= 280 days.

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Profile image of Ashwin
11 Years ago
can you please explain a bit more