It takes ten students ten days to paint ten houses. How many houses can five students paint in five days?
Question
It takes ten students ten days to paint ten houses. How many houses can five students paint in five days?
Solution
From the given problem, we can see that one student can paint one house in ten days.
So, if we have five students, they can paint five houses in ten days because each student can paint one house in ten days.
But the question asks how many houses can five students paint in five days. Since they can paint five houses in ten days, they can paint half of that amount in five days because five is half of ten.
So, five students can paint 2.5 houses in five days. But since we can't have half a house, we can say that five students can paint 2 houses in five days with one half-painted.
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