Bunuel wrote:
Two carpenters, working in the same pace, can build 2 desks in two hours and a half. How many desks can 4 carpenters build in 4 hours?
A. 2.4.
B. 3.6.
C. 4.2.
D. 5.5.
E.6.4
Two ways.
First, pieces of the puzzle (just keep using what we know to find one more piece until we get to the answer).
Each of those first 2 carpenters can knock out a desk in 2.5 hours. In 4 hours, one carpenter could do 1 desk in the first 2.5 hours and then he'd have 1.5 hours left. In 1.5 hours, he could do another
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