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A group of 10 workers can plough a field in 20 days. This group starts the work and after every 2 days, 2 additional workers join the group. The efficiency of each worker is the same. On which day do the workers finish ploughing the field?

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B. 8
C. 13
D. 10
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Total work: 10*20 = 200
Ist two day= 10*2 = 20
Next two day: 12*2= 24
So 20+24+28+32+36+40= 180
So upto 12 days 180 work completed. Next i.e. 13th day= 180+44= 204. Hence on 13th day work completed.

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A group of 10 workers can plough a field in 20 days. This group starts the work and after every 2 days, 2 additional workers join the group. The efficiency of each worker is the same. On which day do the workers finish ploughing the field?

A. 7
B. 8
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D. 10
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Here it may be easier to use percentages to compute the amount of days. A single worker would need 200 days to complete the job, so the rate of a single worker is 1/200 = 0.5%.

The combined rate in the beginning would be 5% per day, and we add 1% every two days since we get 2 more workers every day.

Then we can start adding two days at a time until we reach 100%: 10% + 12% + 14% + 16% + 18% = 70%. Add another 20% and the next day of 11% to reach 100%.

In total that took 2*5 + 2 + 1 = 13 days.

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A group of 10 workers can plough a field in 20 days. This group starts the work and after every 2 days, 2 additional workers join the group. The efficiency of each worker is the same. On which day do the workers finish ploughing the field?

A. 7
B. 8
C. 13
D. 10
E. 11

Here it may be easier to use percentages to compute the amount of days. A single worker would need 200 days to complete the job, so the rate of a single worker is 1/200 = 0.5%.

The combined rate in the beginning would be 5% per day, and we add 1% every two days since we get 2 more workers every day.

Then we can start adding two days at a time until we reach 100%: \(10% + 12% + 14% + 16% + 18% = 70%.\) Add another 20% and the next day of 11% to reach 100%.

In total that took 2*5 + 2 + 1 = 13 days.

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A group of 10 workers can plough a field in 20 days. This group starts the work and after every 2 days, 2 additional workers join the group. The efficiency of each worker is the same. On which day do the workers finish ploughing the field?

A. 7
B. 8
C. 13
D. 10
E. 11

Here it may be easier to use percentages to compute the amount of days. A single worker would need 200 days to complete the job, so the rate of a single worker is 1/200 = 0.5%.

The combined rate in the beginning would be 5% per day, and we add 1% every two days since we get 2 more workers every day.

Then we can start adding two days at a time until we reach 100%: \(10% + 12% + 14% + 16% + 18% = 70%\) Add another 20% and the next day of 11% to reach 100%.

In total that took 2*5 + 2 + 1 = 13 days.

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Sure, remember that our rate increases every two days.

Our first two days would be 5% + 5%, of the entire task. The next two days would complete 6% + 6% of the entire task.

I am grouping these rates two days at a time now to speed up our calculations, so let's just focus on hitting 100% first. Then we need 5% + 5% + 6% + 6% + 7% .... and I did 10% + 12% + 14% + 16% + 18% = 70% to start off, we're still missing 30%.

The next days will complete 10%, 10%, 11%, 11% 12% ..... so I need three more days of work to finish off the missing 30%.

Now finally if we start counting the number of days used, 10%, 12%, 14%, 16%, 18%, and 20%, each of these percentages represents two days of work. That's 12 days which completes 90% of the work in total, and we need one more day of work so 13 days in total would be enough.

Feel free to ask any more questions!
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