Order the reasoning: why more hands finish sooner
Exercise and reference answers
- Steps
- The job is a fixed amount of work
- Each worker contributes at the same rate
- More workers contribute more per day
- So the fixed work is used up in fewer days
- Workers and days therefore vary inversely
Explanation
The argument behind every time and work question. Source: syllabus Maths, Ch 11 Direct and Inverse Proportions.