If five machines can manufacture five identical widgets in five minutes, how many minutes will it take one hundred machines to manufacture one hundred widgets?
5 minutes
Each machine takes 5 minutes to produce 1 widget. Operating in parallel, 100 machines will create 100 widgets during that same 5-minute interval.
About this riddle
Math riddles hide a calculation inside a short story. Pull out the numbers, work out what is being asked, and watch for a trick such as a unit change.
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