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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Work and Time Calculation


Work and time are two of inter-related concepts in mathematics and science. Work and time related calculations are most often asked in almost all competitive exams. Taught in middle school classes, work and time calculation problems are worked out in SAT, MAT exams as well. The trick is to solve the problems within seconds. Let’s have a look at some of the facts related to work and time calculation in this post.

1. If a person can complete a work in n days, then the person can complete 1/n part of the work in one day. For example: She completed the process of researching, ordering and buying the Fisher Price toys for infants’ collection for her shop in 6 days. Therefore, she will complete 1/6 part of the work of researching, ordering and buying the Fisher Price toys for infants’ collection for her shop.

2. If the number of person to complete a particular work is increased, the time to complete the same work decreases. For example: 100 employees build about 1000 toy action figures in 10 days. If the number of employees is increased to 150, then they will build 1000 toy action figures in less than 10 days because the work is distributed among more workers.

3. If worker A has the capability of working twice as worker B, then A will take ½ of the time that B took to complete a work. For example: B designed the outlook of cot mobile for baby girls in 2 hours. A works twice as B and therefore, A designed the outlook of cot mobile for baby girls in ½ x 2 hours = 1 hour.

These are some of the most important facts to be known while working out work and time calculation in mathematics.  However, the list if not the ultimate one, there are many other such work and time related facts.

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