If one Burmese python can eat one 50-cm alligator per week, how many Burmese pythons would it take to eat fifteen 50-centimeter alligators in three weeks?
15 alligators eaten over a period of 3 weeks is a rate of 15/3=
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5 alligators per week.
Under the normal rate of 1 alligator per week per python, it would take 5/1=
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5 pythons to eat 15 alligators in 3 weeks.

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