If 40 ants can eat one pie in two hours, how many ants can eat three pies in four hours?

1 Answer
Jul 4, 2018

See a solution process below:

Explanation:

If 40 ants can eat one pie in two hours, then if we divide the number of ants in half it will take twice as long for them to eat the pies:

Therefore,

20 ants an eat one pie in 4 hours.

We can now triple the number of pies and triple the number of ants to give:

60 ants can eat three pies in 4 hours