a contractor undertook to do a piece of work in 8 days . he employed certain number of laboures but 3 of them were absent from the very first day and the rest could finish the work in only 14 days . find the number of men originally employed ?
"let the number of men originally employed be x . 8 x = 14 ( x â € “ 3 ) or x = 7 answer e"
divide(multiply(14, 3), subtract(14, 8))