Pooja and Ritu can do a piece of work in days. If one day work of Pooja be three fourth of one day work of Ritu; find in how many days each will do the work alone.

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Let Pooja alone can do work in x days and Ritu alone can do in y days. So, in one day Pooja can do th part of work and Ritu can do th part of work. Given, One day work of Pooja equals three fourth of one day work of Ritu. Given, Pooja and Ritu can do a piece of work in days. So, in one day both of them can do th part of work. Substituting value of x from equation (1) in above equation : Substituting value of y in equation (1), we get : Hence, Pooja can do the work alone in 40 days and Ritu in 30 days.

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Pooja and Ritu can do a piece of work in days. If one day work of Pooja be three fourth of one day work of Ritu; find in how many days each will do the work alone.

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