Problema Solution
In one day a man can bind 200 books and his helper binds one quarter as many.if they take turns working complete days,how many days will it take them to bind 1000
Answer provided by our tutors
the total number of books is 1000
first day the man will bind 200 and the next day his helper will bind 200/4 = 50 books thus in 2 days together they will bind 250 books
let x be the number of days needed to bind 1000 books and we have
250 books in 2 days = 1000 books in x days
250 : 2 = 1000 : x
x = 2*1000/250
x = 8
they will need 8 days to bind 1000 books.