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If It Takes Five Machines Five Minutes To Make Five Widgets, How Long Would It Take 100 Machines To Make 100 Widgets?

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Lecover | 03:22 Tue 23rd Jul 2019 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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If it takes five machines five minutes to make five widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets?
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It would take one machine twenty-five minutes to make five widgets, therefore a machine can produce a single widget in five minutes.

So it takes one machine five hundred minutes to produce a hundred widgets. But if that burden is shared among one hundred machines then it takes only five minutes.

Which is a tedious way of pointing out what you can intuitively grasp, that if x machines can produce x widgets in five minutes then the minutes required for production will be constant for any value of x.

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