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Proportion word problems Go to lesson page Problem Mika can eat 2121 21 21 hot dogs in 66 6 6 minutes. She wants to know how many minutes (m)(m) (m) left parenthesis, m, right parenthesis it would take her to eat 3535 35 35 hot dogs if she can keep up the same pace. How many minutes would Mika need to eat 3535 35 35 hot dogs?

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Answer: it will take her 10 minutes to finish 35 hot dogs

Explanation:

Mika can eat 21 hot dogs in 6 minutes. Let us determine the number of hot dogs that she can finish in one minute.

The number of hot dogs that she can finish in one minute would be 21/6 = 7/2 = 3.5 hot dogs

if she can keep up the same pace, the number of minutes, m that it will take her to finish 35 hot dogs would be 35/3.5 = 10 minutes. Therefore

m = 10 minutes.

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