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The zombie apocalypse is upon you! Zombies are showing up at a rate of 15 zombies per hour, and their numbers are increasing by 5 zombies every 3 hours. On average you can kill 35 zombies per hour. Help is going to arrive in 15 hours, will you be overrun before the help arrives?!?!

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The zombie apocalypse is upon you! Zombies are showing up at a rate of 15 zombies per hour, and their numbers are increasing by 5 zombies every 3 hours. On average you can kill 35 zombies per hour. Help is going to arrive in 15 hours, will you be overrun before the help arrives?!?! A solution is provided

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Number of zombies = 15n + 5(n/3), where n is the time in hours e.g n = 1 (e.g. in 1 hour you get 16.67 zombies ([15 x 1] + 5 x ...

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