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Q. Suppose 8 monkeys take 8 minutes to eat 8 bananas.
a) How many minutes would it take 3 monkeys to eat 3 bananas?
b) How many monkeys would it take to eat 48 bananas in 48 minutes

Asked In Infosys pooja kishor phadnis (10 years ago)

Solved suvradeb kundu Read Solution (12)

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Gaurav Yadav  (10 years ago)

8 monkey 8 banana 8 min
1 monkey 1 banana 8 min
3 monkey 3 banana 8 min
48 monkey 48 banana 8 min
8 monkey 48 banana 48 min

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suvradeb kundu  (10 years ago)

a) 8 mnky eat 8 ban in 8 mnt
3 - - -- 3 ----- (8*8*3)/(8*3). =8 mint

b) 8 ban in 8 mnt ate by 8 mnky
1 ------ 1 -------- (8*8)/8 ,,
48 ----- 48 ------ (8*8*48)/(8*48). =8mnky

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PRAVIN KUMAR  (10 years ago)

solve like this:
m1*t1*w2=m2*t2*w1

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bhargav reddy   (10 years ago)

8 monkeys take 8 mins to eat 8 bans.

so, 1 monkey take 8 min to eat 1 banana.

if 1 monkey eat for 48 mins it will eat 6 bananas

there are 48 bananas, so we need 8 monkeys giving 6 bananas each
Ans=8(monkeys)

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shabanabegum  (10 years ago)

8*8/8=x*3/3 so answer is 8min ........from (m1*d1/w1=m2*d2/w2) m=man ,d=day,w=work

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GAURAV BOHRA  (10 years ago)

A)
8 MONKEY EAT 8 BANANAS IN 8 MINUTE

IT MEANS EACH MONKEY IS GETTING 1 BANANA AND EATING IT IN 8 MINUTES SINCE THEY
ARE EATING SIMULTANEOUSLY.
THEREFORE 3 BANANAS FOR 3 MONKEYS WILL GIVE THEM 1 BANANA TO 1 MONKEY
SO IT WILL TAKE 8 MINUTES
b)
8 MONKEYS WILL EAT 8 BANANAS IN 8 MINUTES
SO 8 MONKEYS WILL EAT 48 BANANAS IN 48 MINUTES

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Arifa  (10 years ago)

a)by question we can say that each monkey take 8mins to eat 1 banana. so 3 monkeys will eat 3 bananas in 8mins only.
b)similarly 48 bananas in 48 minutes
48mins/8=6. so 6 monkeys wil eat 48 bananas in 48 minutes.

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rahul bhatiwal  (10 years ago)

there is asimpleformulathat is
m1tiw2=m2w1t2
8*8*3/3*8=8 is ans

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pallwee pallwee  (10 years ago)

a) ans 24 min
b) ans 382

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sairam bangala  (9 years ago)

A) 8 monkeys takes 8 mins to eat 8 bananas so each monkey takes 8 mins to eat 1 bananas so 3 monkeys takes 8 mins to eat 3 bananas
b)8 monkeys can eat 48 bananas in 48 mins that is we know each monkey takes 8 mins to eat 1 banana so 48/8=6 i.e.in 48 mins
each monkey can eat 6 bananas.

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sairam bangala  (9 years ago)

A) 8 monkeys takes 8 mins to eat 8 bananas so each monkey takes 8 mins to eat 1 bananas so 3 monkeys takes 8 mins to eat 3 bananas
b)8 monkeys can eat 48 bananas in 48 mins that is we know each monkey takes 8 mins to eat 1 banana so 48/8=6 i.e.in 48 mins
each monkey can eat 6 bananas.

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sairam bangala  (9 years ago)

A) 8 monkeys takes 8 mins to eat 8 bananas so each monkey takes 8 mins to eat 1 bananas so 3 monkeys takes 8 mins to eat 3 bananas
b)8 monkeys can eat 48 bananas in 48 mins that is we know each monkey takes 8 mins to eat 1 banana so 48/8=6 i.e.in 48 mins
each monkey can eat 6 bananas.

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