If a hen and a half laid an egg and a half in a day and a half, how long would it take for the hen to lay a dozen eggs?
2006-09-13 03:25:12 · 10 answers · asked by Hardknocks 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
18 days
the hen was laying one egg each day and a half...
2006-09-13 03:36:17 · answer #1 · answered by Andy FF1,2,CrTr,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
9 days, heres why....
This question feels strange to answer, because dealing with half
chickens and half eggs is not something one normally encounters.
Because I have no intuitive understanding of half a chicken, I'll
approach this problem by plugging in simple numbers for the
complicated numbers (like one and a half).
Let's say we have 1 chicken that lays 1 egg in 1 day. Then how many
days would it take to get a dozen eggs? 12, right? Now if we have 2
chickens that lay 2 eggs in, say, 3 days, how long does it take to get
a dozen eggs? Since we are getting 4 eggs every 3 days out of these
two chickens, it will take 3*3 = 9 days.
2006-09-13 10:37:53 · answer #2 · answered by sewshawn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A half a hen can't lay eggs, and a hen can't lay half an egg.
2006-09-13 11:52:45 · answer #3 · answered by Kevin H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
12 days
2006-09-13 10:33:13 · answer #4 · answered by mamagirl013 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
12 days
2006-09-13 10:31:00 · answer #5 · answered by Ewww Gross 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
12 days
2006-09-13 10:29:47 · answer #6 · answered by Bill 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Too long. Poor Hen
2006-09-13 10:32:32 · answer #7 · answered by Kenneth G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dozen days
2006-09-13 10:29:21 · answer #8 · answered by SAREK 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
12 days.
2006-09-13 10:28:29 · answer #9 · answered by serenityredflowers 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some good days.
2006-09-13 10:38:18 · answer #10 · answered by Piripiri 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋