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For every 5 chickens, they lay a total of 8 eggs a day. If there were 64 eggs in one day, how many chickens would there be?

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Answer:

40

Explanation:

You could set it up as a proportion 5/8 * x/64 and cross multiply.

User Pommefrite
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answer is 40.

Hope this will help u...:)

For every 5 chickens, they lay a total of 8 eggs a day. If there were 64 eggs in one-example-1
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