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cows eating husk

by maihuna » Sun May 03, 2009 8:17 am
In a diary farm 40 cows eat 40 bags of husk in 40 days, in how many days one cow will eat one bag of husk?

1/40
1/10
1
40
80
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by 4seasoncentre » Sun May 03, 2009 8:22 am
Is it 40?

I didn't do any math, I just imagined 40 cows each eating their own bag of hay, and it taking 40 days.
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by artistocrat » Sun May 03, 2009 2:37 pm
40 cows eat 40 bags in 40 days, so 1 cow eats 1 bag in 40 days, so she eats 1/40 bags per day, or 1 bag in 40 days.

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Re: cows eating husk

by lilu » Sun May 03, 2009 6:48 pm
maihuna wrote:In a diary farm 40 cows eat 40 bags of husk in 40 days, in how many days one cow will eat one bag of husk?

1/40
1/10
1
40
80
Badly worded question. How do you know that all the cows are eating at the same rate?
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by gauravgundal » Mon May 04, 2009 3:06 am
No of workers is directly prop. to amount of work done
No of workers is inversely prop. to time take

so
Cow's * Time Taken/(Total bags contating husk)

Therefore

40*40/(40)=1*No of days req./(1)
Answer = 40
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