Fat Cats (Posted on 2002-05-14)

	Submitted by levik
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The answer is six minutes. The reason being is that in the first scenario the ration of cats to rats is 1:1, which lets us calculate that one fat cat needs one minute to eat a fat rat. In the second scenario the ratio becomes 1:2, so it will take two times longer.

	Subject	Author	Date
	Solution with observation	Dej Mar	2008-10-07 10:20:09
	Puzzle Solution: Method III	K Sengupta	2008-05-13 05:56:19
	Puzzle Solution: Method II	K Sengupta	2008-05-13 05:55:37
	Puzzle Solution	K Sengupta	2007-12-07 06:05:13
	solution	Jack	2007-09-30 06:21:00
	solution	macgyver08	2006-04-26 22:16:24
	Yuck	owl	2004-12-11 05:56:54
	I'm feline confident about this....	Penny	2004-12-10 09:50:53
	re: easy	Spork	2004-12-09 21:06:20
	easy	Billy Bob	2004-03-31 21:46:50
	Solution	Lewis	2003-08-01 12:37:47
	re: yea easy	Viet	2003-07-12 06:33:18
	yea easy	Viet	2003-07-12 06:29:55
	too easy!	calla tah-n	2003-05-18 20:42:42
	IP numbers	Grant	2003-01-31 23:56:57
	fat rats and fat cats	crazy-kook	2002-09-06 16:26:09
	Fat rats	Half-Mad	2002-05-15 23:58:41
	solution	Andrei	2002-05-15 00:09:22
	three fat cats	Dave	2002-05-14 17:05:35
	Fat Cats	Happy	2002-05-14 12:14:34