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One beaver can chew though a tree that is 15 cm thick in 20 min if it works at the same pase how long will it tack one beaver to cut down enough trees to create a stack 1.2 meters tall

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It takes 8 trees to make a stack 1.2 metres tall, so if ut takes 20 minutes per tree, then it will take 8 × 20 or 160 minutes, or 2 hours 40 minutes.
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