Cake Eaters

If Josh can eat 110 cakes in 10 minutes and Micah can eat 56 cakes in 8 minutes, how long will it take Josh and Micah to eat 954 cakes?

 

Share:

• Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)
• Click to print (Opens in new window)
• Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
• Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
• Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
• Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
• Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
• Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

March 29th, 2011 | Category: Food Riddles, Mathematical |  Email This Riddle

2 guesses to Cake Eaters

Warning: Use of undefined constant bfa_comments - assumed 'bfa_comments' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /home/customer/www/riddledude.com/public_html/wp-content/themes/atahualpa/comments.php on line 132

• paul

  March 30, 2011 at 10:30 PM

  Josh can eat 11 cakes per minute, while Micah can slam down 7 per minute. Since they can eat 18 cakes per minute, it will take 53 minutes for Josh and Micah together to polish off 954 cakes, assuming they don’t stop for a swig of beer (954 total cakes divided by 18 cakes per minute).

• Dude

  March 30, 2011 at 10:43 PM

  Couldn’t have explained it better, Paul.

  You’re today’s winner.