At a loading dock

[alex.gellatly]

At a loading dock, each worker on the night crew loaded 3/4 as many boxes as each worker on the day crew. If the night crew has 4/5 as many workers as the day day crew, what fraction of all the boxes loaded by the two crews did the day crew load?

1/2
2/5
3/5
4/5
5/8

Thanks

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[GMATGuruNY]

At a loading dock, each worker on the night crew loaded 3/4 as many boxes as each worker on the day crew. If the night crew has 4/5 as many workers as the day day crew, what fraction of all the boxes loaded by the two crews did the day crew load?

1/2
2/5
3/5
4/5
5/8

Thanks

Plug in SMALL numbers.

Day crew:
Let the number of workers = 5.
Let the number of boxes loaded by each worker = 4.
Total number of boxes loaded = 5*4 = 20.

Night crew:
Since the night crew has 4/5 as many workers as the day crew, the number of workers on the night crew = (4/5)5 = 4.
Since each worker on the night crew loaded 3/4 as many boxes as each worker on the day crew, the number of boxes loaded by each night crew worker = (3/4)4 = 3.
Total number of boxes loaded = 4*3 = 12.

(Boxes loaded by the day crew)/(Total number of boxes loaded by the two crews) = 20/(20+12) = 20/32 = 5/8.

The correct answer is E.

[Anurag@Gurome]

At a loading dock, each worker on the night crew loaded 3/4 as many boxes as each worker on the day crew. If the night crew has 4/5 as many workers as the day day crew, what fraction of all the boxes loaded by the two crews did the day crew load?

1/2
2/5
3/5
4/5
5/8

Thanks

Say, number of workers in the day crew = w
=> Number of workers in the night crew = 4w/5.

Say, total number of boxes loaded by the day crew = x
=> Number of boxes loaded by each of the workers in the day crew = x/w.
=> Number of boxes loaded by each of the workers in the night crew = (3/4)*(x/w).
=> Total number of boxes loaded by the night crew = Number of workers in the night crew * Boxes loaded by each of the workers in the night crew = (4w/5)*[(3/4)*(x/w)] = 3x/5.

Therefore, total number of boxes loaded by the two crews = Boxes loaded by the day crew + Boxes loaded by the night crew = x + 3x/5 = 8x/5.

Therefore, required fraction = Boxes loaded by the day crew/Total number of boxes loaded by the two crews = x/(8x/5) = [spoiler]5/8[/spoiler].

The correct answer is E.