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a larger gear wheel has 40 teeth and a small gear wheel has 25 teeth. if the larger one makes 100 revolutions in a minute, how many revolutions does the smaller one make?

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lets calculate gear ration T2/T1
so the gear ratio will be 1.6 it simply means dat if u rotate large gears one full revolution it tends to turn another short wheel to 1.6 revs, so in ur qtion the large whell revs 100 den u must multiply wid 1.6*100= 160 revs

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