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Building Barns

barn

The workers at Amy's Barn Company usually work in teams of 5. It takes a crew of 5 workers 9 days to build a barn.

A crew lost two of its workers. How many days should it take the remaining 3 workers to build a barn?

Extra: If a customer needs to have a barn built in 7 days, what is the minimum number of workers that Amy would need to put on the job?