An office has a staff of 6 people. A certain project will take the regular staff 24 hours to complete. Assuming that all the workers will perform at this rate, how many additional workers must be employed to complete the job in 8 hours?

Answer: 12
Explanation

144/8 = 18 people.

Thus you would need twelve additional people.

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