Question

Residents of the town of Smithfield like to consume hams, but each ham requires 10 people to produce it and takes a month. If the town has a total of 100 people, what is the maximum amount of ham the residents can consume in a month?

Answer 1

A tenth of a ham.

Explanation:

1 Ham requires 10 people to make it and takes 1 month.

the population of the town is 100, so the quantity of ham we can produce is given by:

`(Total People)/(people  required) = (100)/(10) = 10`

Acording to the last result, we can produce 10 hams per month.

if the total of people is 100, and the hams produced was 10, each people can consume:

`(hams)/(people) = (10)/(100) = 0.1`