5 chickens can lay 10 eggs in 20 days. How long does it take 18 chickens to lay 100 eggs?

1 chicken lays 2 eggs in 20 days.

That is 10 days per egg per chicken
so now what?

Did you know?

Did you know that the rate at which chickens lay eggs is independent of their population size? In the scenario given, 5 chickens laid 10 eggs in 20 days. This means that each chicken laid 2 eggs in 20 days. Using this information, we can determine that 18 chickens would also lay 2 eggs each in 20 days. Now, if we want to know how long it takes 18 chickens to lay 100 eggs, we can set up a proportion. Since each chicken lays 2 eggs in 20 days, we can write the equation as 2/20 = 100/x, where x represents the number of days for 18 chickens to lay 100 eggs. Solving this proportion, we find that it would take the 18 chickens 200 days to lay 100 eggs. It's fascinating that despite the increase in the number of chickens and eggs, the rate of laying eggs per chicken remains the same!