SOLUTION: Four cans of dog food will feed 3 dogs for 1 day a) How many cans are needed to feed 10 dogs for 6 days? b) How many dogs can be fed for 9 days from 60 cans? c) For how many

Question 978267: Four cans of dog food will feed 3 dogs for 1 day
a) How many cans are needed to feed 10 dogs for 6 days?
b) How many dogs can be fed for 9 days from 60 cans?
c) For how many days will 40 cans feed 2 dogs?

Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This is uniform rates, the task is consume dog food cans. The dogs are the agents doing the job of consuming cans of dog food.

Let r be the rate of consumption for ONE dog in CANS per DAYS.
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Three dogs each of which are consuming at the rate of r CANS per DAY for one day will eat four cans of food.

The basic formula to relate R for rate, T for time, and Q for quantity of job or task is RT=Q.

This may be enough information for you to arrange how to solve your three questions.
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