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If Six Squirrels . . . . Methodology

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Thursday | 15:21 Sun 07th Jan 2018 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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If six squirrels can eat 6 acorns in 1/10 of an hour, how many would it take to eat 100 acorns in 6000 seconds?
Could someone straightforwardly explain the best methodology for this type of question please? Thank you.
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do it in stages
6 squirels eat 6 acorns in 360 seconds (1/10 of an hour)
6 squirrels eat 1 acorn in 60 seconds
6 squrrels eat 100 acorns in 6000 seconds

I think.... easy to go wrong on these when not really concentrating
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Thanks fiction-factory. I had been breaking it down, but in a different way. If six squirrels can eat 6 acorns in 6 minutes, then one squirrel can eat one acorn in six minutes, which doesn't easily multiply/divide with 100 acorns/minutes. I never thought of working out what 6 squirrels could do!
I suppose another way of looking at it is that if 6 squirrels can eat 6 acorns in 6 minutes then it's obvious that those same 6 squirrels can eat 100 acorns in 100 minutes if they're eating at the same rate.
Many thanks.

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