SOLUTION: takes twelve hackers ten minutes to crack three passwords. a) How many hackers would it take to crack 100 passwords in 25 minutes? b) How many passwords could fifty hackers crack

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Question 1149009: takes twelve hackers ten minutes to crack three passwords.
a) How many hackers would it take to crack 100 passwords in 25 minutes?
b) How many passwords could fifty hackers crack in an hour?
c) 66 hackers are split into two teams. The first team has 60 more hackers than the
second team. How long would it take the second team to crack 99 passwords?
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Answer by Alan3354(69443)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
takes twelve hackers ten minutes to crack three passwords.
120 HM (hacker-minutes) cracks 3 PWs
----> Each PW takes 40 HMs
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a) How many hackers would it take to crack 100 passwords in 25 minutes?
100*40 = 4000 HMs
4000HM/25M = 160 hackers
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b) How many passwords could fifty hackers crack in an hour?
Similar to a.
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c) 66 hackers are split into two teams. The first team has 60 more hackers than the
second team. How long would it take the second team to crack 99 passwords?
Step 1, find H for the 2nd team.
Step 2, similar to a
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day did your birthday fall in 2004?
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