If three monkeys can eat three bananas in three minutes, how many minutes would it take one hundred monkeys to eat one hundred bananas?
3 minutes
Each monkey eats one banana in 3 minutes. Therefore, 100 monkeys eating simultaneously will finish 100 bananas in 3 minutes.
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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