# How many mice will be eaten? [closed]

A cat and a half eats a mouse and a half for an hour and a half. How many mice will be eaten by 100 cats for 100 hours?

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10,000. Half a cat eats no mice.

alternately...

100 - because the rest of the mice will run away over the course of the hour where each cat is eating their first mouse.

$$6666 \frac{2}{3}$$
In an hour and a half, $$N$$ cats eat $$N$$ mice. Therefore the number of mice eaten by $$100$$ cats in $$100$$ hours will be $$100 \times \frac{100}{3/2}$$