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Puzzles & Brain Teasers
Monkeys and Bananas
1. How many minutes would it take 2 monkeys to eat 2 bananas?
7
2. How many monkeys would it take to eat 21 bananas in 21 minutes?
7
Solution:
1. It would take 7 minutes for 2 monkeys to eat 2 bananas; and
2. it would take 7 monkeys 21 minutes to eat 21 bananas.
Food for thought:
What assumptions are made in arriving at the solution?
Does one assume that 7 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 7 minutes to eat 1 banana and that all monkeys eat at the same pace?
Think it over!
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