Question

Pintu takes 6 days more than those of Nishu to complete certain work. If they work together they finish it in 4 days. How many days would it take to complete the work if they work alone.

Answer 1

Hint: Express the work done by both in the form of an equation according to the given condition and solve the equation.

Complete step-by-step answer:
In the question it is given that Pintu takes 6 days more than those of Nishu to complete the work
So let's take the no of days taken by Nishu to complete the work=x
 So, the number of days taken by Pintu=x+6
So, the amount of work done by Nishu in 1 day=$\dfrac{1}{x}$
The amount of work done by Pintu in 1 day=$\dfrac{1}{{x + 6}}$
So, both of them work together to finish a work in 4 days,
So we can write $\dfrac{1}{x}$+$\dfrac{1}{{x + 6}}$=$\dfrac{1}{4}$
                         $
   \Rightarrow \dfrac{{x + 6 + x}}{{{x^2} + 6x}} = \dfrac{1}{4} \\
   \Rightarrow 8x + 24 = {x^2} + 6x \\
   \Rightarrow {x^2} - 2x - 24 = 0 \\
    \\
 $
This is in the form of a quadratic equation,
So let us solve this and find out the roots
$
   \Rightarrow {x^2} - 6x + 4x - 24 = 0 \\
   \Rightarrow x(x - 6) + 4(x - 6) = 0 \\
   \Rightarrow x = 6,x = - 4 \\
 $
Since , the number of days cannot be negative, so we can write x=6
So, the number of days taken by Nishu to complete the work=6 days
The number of days taken by Pintu to complete the work=x+6=6+6=12 days.

Note: Here we have to find out the value of both x and x+6 and shouldn’t stop the solution after finding the value of only x.