A contractor undertook to do a piece of work in 18 days. He employed certain number of laboures but 9 of them were absent from the very first day and the rest could finish the work in only 6 days. Find the number of men originally employed ? Choose one
A) 3.5	B) 4	C) 4.5	D) 4.2	E) 4.3
Let the number of men originally employed be x.   18x = 6(x â€“ 9)   or x = 4.5   Answer 4.5
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A contractor undertook to do a piece of work in 18 days. He employed certain number of laboures but 9 of them were absent from the very first day and the rest could finish the work in only 6 days. Find the number of men originally employed ?