If 8 workers can plough a 6 ha field in 5 hours, how long will it take to plough a 9 ha field with 5 workers working at the same rate?
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Therefore a 9 ha field requires 9 (40/6) = 60 man-hours. 60 man-hours divided by 5 workers = 12 hours.
So it takes 12 hours for 5 workers to plough a 9 ha field.
If you want to be PC you can replace man-hours with person-hours.
Another way is to simply figure out that there is an direct and inverse proportionality.
Let t, f, and w denote time, ha field, and workers, respectively. Obviously, more workers mean less time and more field means more time. Therefore:
Where k is a constant. If you plug in your given, you get k to be:
Plugging in f = 9 and w = 5, we get t = 12.