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two ploughmen can plough a field in 10 days. find how long it would take 5 ploughmen to plough the same field

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(2 ploughmen)*(10 days) = 20 ploughman·days

20 ploughman·days/(5 ploughmen) = 4 days

It would take them 4 days.
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