If a man and a half dug a hole and a half in a day and a Half how long would it take two men?

Answer 1

Ignoring th arguments about no such thing as 1/2 man and tea breaks
1 man would dig 1 hole in 3/2 days so two men would dig 1 hole in 3/4 days. 3/2 holes would take 3/4 x 3/2 + 9/8 days

Answer 2

You cannot dig a half of a hole and How do you get a 1/2 man? Well to answer your question, if two men dug a hole & 1/2 then it would only take 3/4 day because it would not be only one day because the work is distributed between two men, instead of 1 and 1/2 men.

Answer 3

A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who's gonna come along in that time? Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all ****ing night."

Answer 4

The constant here is the quantity (ie a hole and a half). Therefore, ignoring this we can say that if it takes 1.5 men 1.5 days to dig, then it would take 1 man 1.5*(1/(1.5)) days or 9/4 days. If we have 2 men digging, we should expect the task to take half as long or 9/8 days = 1.125 days.

Answer 5

how long would it take two men to do what? (and what is a half dug? and how does it dig a hole?)

Answer 6

So 1.5 men dug 1.5 holes in 1.5 days.
That means that it took 0.75 (3/4's of day) for two men to dig 1.5 (1 and 1/2) holes.

Answer 7

the two men could have the day off as the hole ia already dug

Answer 8

Two men would spend so much time arguing over the best way to dig the hole, it would never get done.

Answer 9

1 day

Answer 10

You can`t dig half a hole.