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A little brown bat has eaten 1400 mosquitoes. It can eat 900 mosquitoes per hour. Let x be the number of hours it needs to hunt and eat 4100 mosquitoes.
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A little brown bat has eaten 1400 mosquitoes. It can eat 900 mosquitoes per hour. Let x be the number of hours it needs to hunt and eat 4100 mosquitoes.

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1400+ 900x= 4100

Subtract 1400 from each side

900x= 2700

Divide each side by 900

X= 3

It needs to eat 3 mosquitos each hour
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