The number of people is inversely proportional to the number of days for a bag of rice to last. If it takes 8 people for a bag of rice to last 5 days, how many days would it take 10 people?

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Martin Redmond asked Dec 26, 2022

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The number of people is inversely proportional to the number of days for a bag of rice to last. If it takes 8 people for a bag of rice to last 5 days, how many days would it take 10 people?

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the ratio is 8/5, so the inverse would be 5/8, then it went up to 10, so it would be 10/4

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