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  1. 5 skilled workers can build a wall in 20 days; 8 semiskilled workers can build a wall in 25 days; 10 unskilled workers can build a wall in 30 days. If a team has 2 skilled, 6 semiskilled and 5 unskilled workers, how long will it take to build the wall?
    1. 20 days
    2. 18 days
    3. 16 days
    4. 15 days
Correct Option: D

5 skilled workers build wall in 20 days
∴ 1 skilled worker build wall in 20 × 5 days

Hence in 1 day,part of work done by skilled work =
1
100

Similarly in 1 day part of work done by semi-skilled workers =
1
25 × 8

and in 1 day part of work done by un-skilled worker =
1
30 × 10

So part of work done in 1 day by 2 skilled, 6 semiskilled and 5 unskilled =
2
+
6
+
5
=
1
10020030015

So work done by given workers in days = 15



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