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Question 971356: Could you pleas help with this question Four monkeys eat four sacks of peanuts in three minutes. How many monkeys will it take each 100 sacks of peanuts in sixty minutes at this rate? Thank you for your all your help and time
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Uniform Rates for Doing a Task or Job.

RT=J.
The definition for 1 job is Eating One Snack.
Let r be the rate for 1 monkey in SNACKS per MINUTE.
For n monkeys, their group rate is nr.

The first sentence is 4r%2A3=4. This indicates that r is 1 snack per 3 minutes or r=1%2F3.

The second sentence hold the question.
Let n be unknown number of monkeys;
n%2Ar%2A60=100 and you already solved for r.
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n%2A%281%2F3%2960=100
n%2A20=100
highlight%28n=5%29