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If four coops each containing four chickens produce a total of four eggs every four days, how many eggs on average does one chicken produce in one day?
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How many chickens are there in total? How frequently is a whole egg produced?Answer
One chicken produces an average of one sixteenth of an egg in one day.If there are four coops of four chickens each, there are sixteen chickens. Four eggs are produced every four days, so one egg is produced each day. Therefore, each chicken produces an egg every sixteen days, resulting in an average of one sixteenth.
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