Decoration Day
Each year on Memorial Day, the National Guard decorates the graves in the Arlington National Cemetary with flags. If a troop of 10 soldiers want to decorate an area with 100 tombstones by placing 2 flage on each grave, and each soldier begins with the same number of flags, how many flags does each of the begin with?
The answer is 20.
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1 soldier = 2 flags
10 soldier = 2 * 10 = 20 flags