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It takes 8 people to pull a 16ton truck, how many people does it take to pull a 60 ton truck?
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It takes 8 people to pull a 16ton truck, how many people does it take to pull a 60 ton truck?
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Let's say that each of those 8 people pulled 16/8=2 tones
(since we have no other information about how the group dynamics might make the work different)
then to pull 60 tones we would need (60/2)=30 people.
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