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Chicken Riddles
If it takes 5 microwaves 5 minutes to cook 5 chickens, how long does it take 100 microwaves to cook 100 chickens?
Choose an answer
A.100 minutes
B.20 minutes
C.1 minute
D.5 minutes. We can assume that one chicken is placed in each microwave and that each chicken takes 5 minutes to cook.
Answer: 5 minutes. We can assume that one chicken is placed in each microwave and that each chicken takes 5 minutes to cook.
Each microwave cooks its own chicken in parallel, so scaling up the numbers doesn't change the 5-minute cook time.