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A frog is at the bottem of a 30 foot well. Each hour it climbs up 3 feet and slips back 2 feet. How many hours does it take to get the frog out?
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A bookworm starts at the outside of the front cover of Volume I of a set of five volumes of books on a bookshelf, and eats his way to the outside of the back cover of Volume V. If each of the volumes is one inch thick, how far has the bookworm eaten?
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30 hours for the frog and five inches for the bookworm
The answer to 1) 30 hours
The answer to 2) I think 5 inches
30 hours and 5 inches
Should be around 27-30 hours (right?)
3 inches of paper.
1. 30 hours
2. 5 in.
30 hours for the frog one (i think)
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V inches (right)
For the first one it takes 30 hours.
For the second one it has eaten through six..
1) 30 hours
2) still thinking
30 hrs.---5 inch
1. THE FROG DIED OF THIRST...
2. THE WORM EXPLODED FROM EATING