True or false: worker-days
Exercise and reference answers
- Questions
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- Workers multiplied by days measures the size of the job.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- If the job doubles, the worker-days double.
- Statement is true
- No
- Statement
- Adding workers changes the total worker-days needed.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- Twice the workers finish the same job in half the days.
- Statement is true
- No
- Statement
- Worker-days is a ratio, not a product.
Explanation
Worker-days is the constant, and naming it makes these questions easy. Source: syllabus Maths, Ch 11 Direct and Inverse Proportions.