Q.

A road of 5 km length will be constructed in 100 days. So 280 workers were employed. But after 80 days it was found that only 72 km road was completed. Now how many more people were need to finish the work in the specified time?

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a

480

b

80

c

200

d

100

answer is A.

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Detailed Solution

280 persons worked 80 days to complete 3500 meters road. 

So that a person can complete the work perday is 3500280·80=0.15625

So to complete 1500 meters, we need 15000.15625=9600 man days

to complete the abvoe task in 20 days, we need to get the people 960020=480

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