document.write( "Question 1046344: If one pound can feed either 5 chickens or 2 pigs, then ten pounds of grain can feed 20 chickens and how many pigs? \r
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document.write( "This phrase \". . . one pound can feed either 5 chickens or 2 pigs\" means that \r\n" );
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document.write( "   1 chicken eats  = 0.2 pound of grain,  or\r\n" );
document.write( "   1 pig     eats  = 0.5 pound of grain.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then 20 chickens will eat 0.2*20 = 4 pounds of grain, and still 10 - 4 = 6 pounds of grain will remain.\r\n" );
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document.write( "It is enough to feed  = 12 pigs.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Answer. \". . . and how many pigs?\" - 12 pigs.\r\n" );
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