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Question
7 men can do a piece of in 12 days how many men will be required to do double the work in 8 days
If you take M as the number of men and D as the number of days,
it is known that MD = K, where K is a constant. In this case, K = 7*12 = 84.
If D is changed to 8, solve for M. You get 8M = 84, so M = 84/8 = 21/8.
Now you can't get 1/2 a man, so hire one of the men only 1/2 of the time.
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