Question

Three people whowork full time are working together on a project but their totaltime on the project is to be equivalent to that of only one person working full time. If one of the people is budgetedforone half of the time to the project and the second person foe one third of her time what part of the third workers time should be budgeted to this project

Answer 1

The answer is (1/3). So first you need to determine the fraction of time the second person worked. Multiply (1/2)x(1/3) and you will get (1/6). All the values need to add up to 1, so you can make the equation (1/2)+(1/6)+x=1. Solve for x and you will get (1/3).