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A contractor undertook a work to complete in 60 days. But just after 20 days he observed that only `(1)/(5)th` of the project work had been completed. To complete the work in time in rest days minimum how many workers he had to increase, if there were initially 75 workers were deployed for the task?

A

25

B

50

C

75

D

can’t be determined

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