A painting job can be completed by 4 painters in 23 days.
If 8 more painters join the team 5 days after starting work on the job, how many more days are required to complete the job?

 

3 weeks as they are all sacking the dirty undies drawer and taking turns to sniff n' whack.

 

6 more days

 

Are they given any more brushes?

 

How many have fooked off to the pub?

 

8 more days.

Knowing a few painters and seeing how early they get into the pub, you want to know how long its gonna take to paint your living room?

 

Got it... The 23 days was looking good until the 8 others arrived who turned out to be Polish and didn't speak English, anyhoo they got stuck in and things were looking good, until the immigration inspector arrived to deport 7 as they had entered Britain illegally, the other 5 continued to paint happily until the Dole snooper arrived taking four dole scroungers away, who were working whilst claiming benefit, leaving just one old man, close to retirement age who was also blind in one eye...

Answer the job still aint finished and never will be?

 

There is actually no answer to this. Just because a job CAN be completed in X time by Y workmen doesn't mean that it will be. The truth of the matter is they will probably pad it out and rip you off

 

Is there a weekend in the five days ?

 

notning will get done if "the painters are in"..just some random woman looking pissed off

 

4 painters * 23 days = 92 man-days of work in total.

First 5 days * 4 painters = 20 man-days' work done, leaving 72 still to be done.

8 more join in giving a total of twelve for the remaining time. 72 / 12 = 6.

Therefore, 6 more days are needed after the new guys start work.

(apologies to any project managers, tradespeople, engineers or anyone else with a modicum of experience who knows perfectly well there's no such thing as a man-day of work!)

 

Not sure where I got 8 from.

 

It will probably be a 39 hour week in which case it will be 6 days 2 hours and maybe 10 mins for a cup of well deserved cup of tea