It take 10 people working 2 hours a day 5 days to fix a road working at the same pace how many days will it take 2 people working 5 hours a day to fix a road

It would take 10 days for 2 people working for 5 hours a day to fix a road.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given:

Let the number of people be denoted by 'p'.

Let the number of hours be denoted by 'h'.

Let the number of days be denoted by 'd'.

Solution:

Now given:

Case 1:

It take 10 people working 2 hours a day 5 days.

so we can say that;

Now we can say that.

Job Completed can be calculated by multiplying number of people with number of hours and number of days.

So we can say that;

Job Completed =

Case 2:

We need to find the how many days will it take 2 people working 5 hours a day to fix a road.

So we can say that;

Now we know that;

Job Completed =

Now we know that Job completed would be the same so we can say that;

Dividing both side by 10 we get;

Hence we can say that It would take 10 days for 2 people working for 5 hours a day to fix a road.

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