Egg Yoke   If three hens lay four eggs in five days, how many days will it take a dozen hens to lay eight dozen eggs?  Please round your answers to the nearest day (or egg if needed)!
July 4, 2005
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	Anthony Pabillano. Flour Bluff Junior High School, Corpus Christi, TX Roland Vyncke. Brugge, Belgium Timothy Yales. Westland, Michigan Betsy Price. Asheville Christian Academy, Asheville, NC Mark Wintczak. Naperville, IL Adrian Atanasiu. Bucharest, Romania Aristides Kyriakakis.  Thessaloniki. Greece Jerrold Greenberg. New York, NY Panagiotis Agiakloglou. Athens. Greece Bob Mitchell. Normal, IL Frank McGartland. Saskatoon, SK., Canada. Grace Lu. Miller Elementary School, Canton MI Jamon Kennedy.  Holton, KS Tim Poe. Austin TX Eileen Zhu. Kearny, NJ Austin Rosel.  Austin, TX Norman Peng. Lowell High School, San Francisco, CA Luan Luu. CSU Long Beach, Garden Grove, CA Jake Cheng. Rutgers School of Engineering, Bridgewater, NJ José González. PUC, Santiago, Chile Diane Kristiansen. Westwood College, Dallas, TX Brian Hetrick. UNH, Manchester NH Radu Ionescu. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Daniel Adams. BYU, Provo, UT Sarah Chen. Marie Curie Middle School, New York, NY Phillip Ai. Warnsdorfer Elementary School, East Brunswick, NJ Brandi Krieg. Cedaredge Middle School, Cedaredge, CO Matthew Fong. Hopkins Jr. High, Fremont, CA Albert Zhou.  Scott Middle School, Lincoln, NE Teruo Goto. Aichi, Japan Bar Greengrass. Israel Dimitris Goulas. NBG, Larissa, Greece Drug Marata. Korenovsk, Russia Vlaicu Crisan. Cluj-Napoca, Romania Alireza Faezifar. Tehran, Iran Rob Kline.  Lebanon High School, Lebanon, IN Minkyu Jang. Westfield High School, Westfield NJ Anna Li. Sandburg Middle School, Anoka, MN Jerome Cherry. NAIT. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Abhijeet Singh. Seas Mumbai, Rai University India Tara Franz. Maple Ridge, BC, Canada Allamanis Miltiadis. Anatolia High School, Thessaloniki, Greece David Wang. Don Mills C.I, Toronto, ON, Canada Brian Chan. Summit Middle School, Coquitlam BC, Canada Harry Siebert. Infineon, Munich, Germany Mike Osterfoss. Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO Omid Kohannim. UCLA, Los Angeles, CA Jeremiah Delgado. Seminole High School, Sanford, FL Ilya Antipov, Odessa State Politechnical University Joseph Bao. Troy, MI Team I.  New Castle, PA Melody Kuna. Abilene High School, Abilene, TX Jennifer Palmer. Hornick, IA Kedar Shashidhar. Alternative School for Math and Science, Corning, NY Bill Mansfield. North Boston, NY Giuseppe Giannone. Mantova, Italy Rohit Bollineni. Power Middle School, Farmington Hills, MI Cindy Sung. Duchesne Academy, Houston, TX
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