Problema Solution

4 boys work 6 hours in a day. If the job takes 192 hours to complete, how many days will the boys have to work?

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let 'x' be the number of days the boys need to work


since every day the rate of the work is the same we can write the following


6 : 1 = 192 : x


by solving we find


x = 32 days


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the boys will have to work 32 days.