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150 workers were engaged to finish a job in a certain number of days. 4 workers dropped out on second day, 4 more workers dropped out on third day and so on. It took 8 more days to finish the work. Find the number of days in which the work was completed.

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Let V be the number of days that the work was to be completed

∴ For one worker, number of days required to complete the work = 150n.

150 + 146 + 142 + ….upto (n + 8) terms = 150n.

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