2006-08-04 10:25:59 · 15 answers · asked by lord_and_master25 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
If 3 cats kill 3 mice in 3 minutes, each cat kills 1 mouse in 3 minutes. So 100 cats kill 100 mice in 3 minutes.
2006-08-04 10:30:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
3
2006-08-04 10:51:08 · answer #2 · answered by williamair1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, logically, I suppose you can think that it takes 1 cat 1 minute to kill 1 mouse. So it might take 100 minutes for 100 cats to kill 100 mice. Then again, all the cats can still take 3 minutes to kill those 100 mice. But this is most likely an unsolvable question. For example, what if the cats don't kill all the mice? What if one cat kills like 25 mice. What were the other 99 cats doing? Etc, etc...
Hehe. Minuts. Mices. Lol.
...gorgeous.
2006-08-04 10:32:06 · answer #3 · answered by masterdeath01 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
3 minutes
2006-08-04 11:10:06 · answer #4 · answered by MollyMAM 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Now, if it really did take one cat three minutes to kill one mouse, then 100 cats would take three minutes to kill 100 mice. But, three cats would be unable to kill 100 mice in 100 minutes unless the killing efficiency of each cat was unequal. Now, if the efficiency is unequal, the 100 cats could trend higher or lower than the three minutes necessary, especially in light of the error in establishing the three minute kill rate based upon a sample size of three. In other words, the cat killing efficiency rate must be established with more data before you can predict the performance of 100 cats.
Meow, Phhhut!
2006-08-04 10:56:40 · answer #5 · answered by Karman V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
3 minutes for 3 cats to kill 3 mice
3 minutes for 100 cats to kill 100 mice
the irony...
2006-08-04 10:33:33 · answer #6 · answered by lifeisblah13 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let f(t,c) be the number of mice c cats can kill in t minutes.
All we know is that f(3,3) = 3 is in the range of this function. We don't know anything about its behavior other than that. We don't know if it's just a data point from which we could only estimate a best fit curve for f (and with one data point, that's impossible to do anyway--the number of data points is lower than the degrees of freedom!).
2006-08-04 11:17:47 · answer #7 · answered by Minh 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the answer is 3 minutes......each cat takes 3 minutes to kill one mouse....so 100 cats would take 3 minutes to kill 100 mice...
2006-08-04 10:30:22 · answer #8 · answered by Honey 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Surely 3 min!
2006-08-04 17:34:19 · answer #9 · answered by Babli 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if a person thinks ans is 100 minutes it is wrong it is 3
2006-08-04 11:41:24 · answer #10 · answered by Mein Hoon Na 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋