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It takes 52 minutes for 5people to paint 5 walls. How many minutes does it take 20 people to paint 20 walls?

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52 minutes. It’s just 4 times as many people as there are walls
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Answer:

52 minutes

Explanation:

This should be a proportional statement, because if each individual person painted there own wall it should still take 52 minutes.

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