Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

Suppose 8 monkeys take 8 minutes to eat 8 bananas How many monkeys would it take to eat 80 bananas in 80 minutes?

  1. 8

  2. 10

  3. 80

  4. 1
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Explanation

Each monkey eats 1 banana in 8 minutes (8 monkeys : 8 bananas : 8 minutes = 1:1:1 ratio). To eat 80 bananas in 80 minutes, each monkey still eats at 1 banana per 8 minutes rate. In 80 minutes, one monkey eats 10 bananas. So 8 monkeys × 10 bananas each = 80 bananas in 80 minutes. The rate doesn't change with scale.

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