A man persuaded Weary Willie, with some difficulty, to try to work on a job for thirty days at eight dollars a day, on the condition that he would forfeit ten dollars a day for every day that he idled. At the end of the month neither owed the other anything, which entirely convinced Willie of the folly of labor. Can you tell just how many days' work he put in and on how many days he idled?

• let x be no. of days Willie worked and y be days he idled.
  
  so, x+y=30
  
  and 8x - 10y = 0
  
  from these two equations
  x=50/3 and y =40/3
  
  these day should be natural nos. i guess. Am i missing something?
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