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A factory required 42 machines to produce a given number of articles in 56 days. How many machines would be required to produce the same number of articles in 48 days?

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If there are more number of machines, less number of days required to produce the given articles. Therefore it’s inversely proportional.

Let us consider the required of machines be x

42 × 56 = 48 × x

x = (42 × 56) /48 = 49

∴ 49 machines are required.

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