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Eddie The Elephant can eat 110 bananas in 10 minutes, and Hugo The Hippo can eat 56 bananas in 8 minutes.

How long will it take Eddie and Hugo to eat 954 bananas?

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Answer
53 minutes.

In one minute, Eddie eats 11 bananas (= 110 ÷ 10).

In one minute, Hugo eats 7 bananas (= 56 ÷ 8).

So in total, they eat 18 bananas every minute.

So it will take 954 ÷ 18 = 53 minutes.

 

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