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Suppose 5 monkeys take 5 minutes to eat 5 bananas.
1. How many minutes would it take 3 monkeys to eat 3 bananas?
Answer: 5 2. How many monkeys would it take to eat 20 bananas in 20 minutes?
Answer: 5
Solution:
1. It would take 5 minutes for 3 monkeys to eat 3 bananas; and
2. it would take 5 monkeys 20 minutes to eat 20 bananas.
Food for thought:
What assumptions are made in arriving at the solution?
Does one assume that 5 monkeys take 1 minute to eat 1 banana and that all bananas are consumed at the same pace?
Or does one assume that 1 monkey takes 5 minutes to eat 1 banana and that all monkeys eat at the same pace?
Think it over!
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