SOLUTION: An office canteen needs X kilos of rice for each customer a month. If there are Y customer in the canteen, for how many months will Z kilos of rice last?

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Question 1043760: An office canteen needs X kilos of rice for each customer a month. If there are Y customer in the canteen, for how many months will Z kilos of rice last?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39621) About Me  (Show Source):
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The trick is to determine that this is a unit conversion problem.

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