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8 bricklayers can build a wall in 10 days. How long would it take 5 bricklayers to build?

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8 bricklayers can build a wall in 10 days. How long would it take 5 bricklayers to build?

Set up a proportion of bricklayers to building time where t is the amount of time it takes 5 bricklayers to build a wall:
8/10 = 5/t

To solve this proportion for t, we type it in our search engine and we get:
t = 6.25 days
 
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