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About 150 workers were engaged to finish a piece of work in a certain number of days. Four workers stopped working on the second day, four more workers stopped their work on the third day and so on. It took 8 more days to finish the work. Then the number of days in which the work was completed is 29 days`` b. 24 days`` c. 25 days`` d. none of these

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