January 13th, 2017
Today’s Question - An old saw - Farmer Brown hired two workmen who together could saw 5 cords of wood in one day. They could split 8 cords of sawn logs in 1 day. Since Farmer Brown could only pay for 1 day's work, how many cords must they saw to keep them busy splitting for the rest of the day.
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Answer - The two workmen should saw 3 1/13th cords of wood which would keep them busy splitting for the rest of the day. (Yeah! Yeah! I know it's supposed to be fun not algebra.) N.A.Doesn't match Missing info Like question