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