Creative Beggar
Logic
Level
pending
A beggar on the street can make one cigarette out of every 6 cigarette butts he finds. After one whole day of searching and checking public ashtrays the beggar finds a total of 72 cigarette butts. How many cigarettes can he make and smoke from the butts he found?
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12
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1 solution
We know that for every 6 butts he gets, he can smoke one cigarette. This must be a ratio of 6:1. He finds 72 butts. Therefore 72 divided by 6 is 12. 72 butts=12 cigarettes