SOLUTION: Mom had P pounds of cookies and this would feed C children for M minutes. Yet N more children showed up. In how many minutes will P pounds of cookies be devoured by the children?

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: Mom had P pounds of cookies and this would feed C children for M minutes. Yet N more children showed up. In how many minutes will P pounds of cookies be devoured by the children? This question is from textbook Advanced mathematics

Answer by josmiceli(19441)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

where x is the minutes when c+n children are eating


answer
try with numbers
c = 100
n = 20
m = 36




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