2014 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 2
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Roy's cat eats of a can of cat food every morning and of a can of cat food every evening. Before feeding his cat on Monday morning, Roy opened a box containing cans of cat food. On what day of the week did the cat finish eating all the cat food in the box?
Solution 1
Each day, the cat eats of a can of cat food. Therefore, the cat food will last for days, which is greater than days but less than days.
Because the number of days is greater than 10 and less than 11, the cat will finish eating in on the 11th day, which is equal to days after Monday, or
Solution 2
As above, the cat eats of a can of cat food. Therefore we can write a table:
Since cans of cat food is just cans of cat food, then we see that the cat finished the sixth can of cat food on
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