SOLUTION: If a man and a half can eat a cake and a half in a minute and a half, allowing the same situation, how many men would it take to eat 60 cakes in 30 minutes?

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Question 680151: If a man and a half can eat a cake and a half in a minute and a half, allowing the same situation, how many men would it take to eat 60 cakes in 30 minutes?
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) About Me  (Show Source):
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If a man and a half can eat a cake and a half in a minute and a half,
That's one man, one cake in 1.5 min, that's 1.5man-minutes per cake
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allowing the same situation, how many men would it take to eat 60 cakes in 30 minutes?
60 * 1.5 = 90 man-minutes required
Let m = no. men to accomplish this in 30 min
30m = 90
m = 90/30
m = 3 men,