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If 1 squirrel can eat 1 nut in 1 minute, how many minutes does it take for 1000 squirrels to eat 1000 nuts?


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Jeremy Bansil by Jeremy Bansil , 27, Philippines

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Surbhi Seth
May 24, 2014

One squirrel takes one minute to eat one nut. Now we have 1000 squirrels and 1000 nuts. Each will still take one minute

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Oh! I first thought 1000.

Anuj Shikarkhane - 6 years, 11 months ago

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yes i, tooo.

Shrugal Borkar - 6 years, 5 months ago

That's what I thought at first too.

Joshua Fawcett - 5 years, 8 months ago

I too thought the same, but then got the answer right at the end

Sahba Hasan - 5 years, 10 months ago

For short 1000÷1000

Lee Troy Pagsanjan - 5 years, 10 months ago

For short 1000 divided by 1000

Lee Troy Pagsanjan - 5 years, 10 months ago

This is a very confusing question.........

Sourabh shukla - 6 years, 10 months ago
Ishan Mitra
Oct 9, 2015

Upvote this if you answered this correctly in one go :D

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Evan Hong
May 27, 2015

Assuming every squirrel starts at the same time. And if each squirrel gets one nut it will take them all one min to finish because they all eat at the same pace at the same time.

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Raymond Etang
Jul 11, 2014

Just use (/) or what we called per (Such as Miles/Hour or Miles per Hour)

so If 1(squirrel) eat 1(nut) in 1(minute) then this is what it should be look like 1/1/1 = 1. Then applied this to the question. Simple. :)

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1000 nuts and 1000 squirrel in just 1 min

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Ali Anwar Rocker
Feb 8, 2016

All squirrel takes only minute

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Jherwin Ocreto
Aug 22, 2015

You should apply man-hour/item .

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Deepak Shakya
Jul 28, 2015

1 squirrel - 1 nut - 1 minutes 1000squirrel -1000nut- ? Minutes Minutes = 1000 squirrel ÷1000 nut Minutes = 1

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1 nut per minute, so 1000 nuts per 1000 minutes

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Renah Bernat
Jul 26, 2015

The question is :If 1 squirrel can eat 1 nut in 1 minute, how many minutes does it take for 1000 squirrels to eat 1000 nuts?

as you can see there is a given: 1 squirrel = can eat 1 nut in =1 minute

Therefor: 1000 squirrels=can eat 1000 nuts in = 1minute

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Angelo Forcadela
Jul 26, 2015

1:1 = 1000:1000 so it takes 1 minute

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Lance Fernando
Jul 21, 2015

Each squirrel starts even with nuts, so it still takes 1 minute to finish the nuts.

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Abhilash Pati
May 8, 2015

Its simple.Each squirrel can eat 1 but in one min. Like this 1000 squirrel can eat 1000 in one time.

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Bharath Spidy
Jul 3, 2014

1 squirrel => 1 nut = 1 min

1000 squirrel => 1000 nut = 1 min

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Lenard Arceo
Jun 22, 2014

just cancel the 3 zeros in each numbers and divide

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Hicham Akdi
Jun 13, 2014

1for1 so 1000 for 1000 it is idioticly clever

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