If it takes 5 identical industrial machines 5 minutes to manufacture 5 customized bolts, how many minutes will it take 100 of those same machines to manufacture 100 customized bolts?
5 minutes
One machine takes 5 minutes to produce one bolt. Therefore, 100 machines working simultaneously will each produce 1 bolt in 5 minutes, yielding 100 bolts total.
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