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it takes a 160 work days to build a house. this means that one person could build the house and 160 days but two people could build it the house and 80 days. create a table to figure out a relationship between the number of people working and days to completion.

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days =
(160)/(n) → n is number of people

1 person → 160 days

2 people → 80 days →
(160)/(2)

4 people → 40 days →
(160)/(4)

8 people → 20 days →
(160)/(8)

Note that as the number of people increases the number of days decreases

let n be the number of people, then

days =
(160)/(n)


User Alexander Shostak
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