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Dumplings
Kerry loves dumplings. He can eat 32 of them in an hour. His brother Pete needs 3 hours to eat the same amount. How long will it take them both together to eat 32 dumplings?
Answer
If Kerry eats 3 times as fast as Pete, he must be able to eat 3 times as many dumplings as his brother. Therefore, Kerry eats 24 while Pete eats 8 ( 32 / 4 = 8 ). Together it takes them 45 minutes.Hide Answer Show Answer
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Isn'n Kerry a girls name?
Beelzebub: A basketball player on the nets is named Kerry Kittles.
These problems are boring if you know how to solve them. The ratio between their speeds is 3::1 so the faster person eats 3/(3+1) = 3/4. I think it took about 3 seconds to solve this.
Yeah 3 seconds, two of those were while I took my gloves off!
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