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by sanju09 » Thu May 13, 2010 4:19 am
Suppose 7 monkeys take 7 minutes to eat 7 bananas. How many monkeys would it take to eat 70 bananas in 70 minutes?
(A) 70
(B) 49
(C) 35
(D) 7
(E) 1
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by ajith » Thu May 13, 2010 4:23 am
sanju09 wrote:Suppose 7 monkeys take 7 minutes to eat 7 bananas. How many monkeys would it take to eat 70 bananas in 70 minutes?
(A) 70
(B) 49
(C) 35
(D) 7
(E) 1
it takes 7 monkey minutes to eat 1 bananas

to eat 70 bananas it takes 490 monkey minutes

if it has to finish in 70 minutes we need 490/70 = 7 monkeys
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