Math word problem -- Theoretically, How many eggs?

Question

This is not a practical problem, but pure theory. If a chicken and a half can lay and egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs could be laid by 9 chickens in 9 days?

Assume that all the chickens are hens, but list all other assumptions required.

Answer 1

It's really simple.
1.5 chickens can lay 1.5 eggs / 1.5 days = 1 egg / day.

1.5 chickens ------------- 1 egg / day
6* 1.5 = 9 chickens ---- 6 * 1 = 6 eggs /day

6 eggs / day * 9 days = 54 eggs.

So answer is 54.

Answer 2

If you want to get really technical, we should probably add the assumption that chickens lay eggs at a constant rate. Also, we should state that for purposes of this problem, phrases like "half a chicken" and "half an egg" make sense--that is, that we can treat chickens and eggs as continuous quantities (which they are not, of course).

Let's see...if a chicken and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, then we'd expect the same number of chickens to lay six times as many eggs in six times as many days.

So a chicken and a half can lay 9 eggs in 9 days.

If we had 9 chickens, we have six times as many chickens as one and a half, so we'd expect 9 chickens to lay 9 x 6 = 54 eggs in 9 days.

So the answer is 54.

Answer 3

9

Answer 4

assuming the counting for the one and a half day's time started at the start of the 9 days:
6 one and a half eggs will be laid in one and a half day with 9 hens (6 one and a half hens)
therefore, 36 one and a half (54) eggs will be laid in 9 days with 9 hens

Answer 5

im going to have to think the answer is 54 eggs1.5 hens produce 1.5 eggs in 1.5 days gives us the clue that1.5 hens produce 9 eggs in 9 days, and so this means 9 hens in 9 days will give 9*9/1.5=54 eggs!!...giving the possibility that no
No egg turns into a hen in 9 days 54 eggs.

Answer 6

54

Answer 7

One Chicken lays One Egg in One Day
Nine Chickens lay Nine Eggs in One Day
Nine Chickens lay Nine x Nine eggs in Nine days = 81 eggs

Answer 8

30 = -16t^2 + 32t + 50 -16t^2 + 32t + 20 = 0 divide by 4 -4t^2 + 8t + 5 = 0 t = ((-8 +/- sqrt(64-4(-4)(5))/-8 t = ((-8 +/- sqrt(144))/-8 = (-8 +/- 12)/-8 t = -20/-8 = 2.5 seconds the other solution, t = -1/2 second, represents the theoretical time when the object would have been at 30 feet on the way up. At t = 2.5 seconds, the object is on its way down. It reaches its maximum height at t = 1 second, when it reached 66 feet.

Answer 9

assuming that a chicken lays eggs evry 1.5days
in 1.5 days , 9 chicken lay 6 eggs
in 9 days, they lay 36 eggs

Answer 10

1.5 hens produce 1.5 eggs in 1.5 days implies that
1.5 hens produce 9 eggs in 9 days, and thus
9 hens in 9 days will give 9*9/1.5=54 eggs!!...provided that
***No egg turns into a hen in 9 days***

Answer 11

I would go with simple math. 9 chickens, 9 days means 81 total eggs