Mr. Vella can build a brick wall in 4 days. His apprentice can build the same wall in 6 days. After working alone for 3 days, Mr. Vella became ill and left the job for his apprentice to complete. How many days did it take the apprentice to finish the wall?

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Omar Leblanc

29 October, 06:52

Mr. Vella can build a brick wall in 4 days. His apprentice can build the same wall in 6 days. After working alone for 3 days, Mr. Vella became ill and left the job for his apprentice to complete. How many days did it take the apprentice to finish the wall?

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Jimena Ibarra · Answer 1

Mr. Vella can build the wall in 4 days, however only works on it for 3 days. That means that he has completed 75% of the and is leaving 25% for his apprentice.

We need to figure out how long it takes the apprentice to build 25% of a wall. We know he can build 100% of a wall in 6 days, so dividing 6 days by 4 will give us our answer.

6/4 = 3/2 = 1.5 days

It took the apprentice 1.5 days to finish the wall.