My question is: Gertrude the chicken has 10 fleas. The other chicken, Maud has 5 times the amount of fleas as Olive. The final chicken, Olive has half the amount of flees as Gertrude. How many fleas are there? Your thoughts:
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Gertrude has 10 fleas and Olive has half that amount so Olive has 10 / 2 = 5 fleas. Maud has 5 times the amount of fleas as Olive who has 5 fleas so Maud has 5 * 5 = 25 fleas. Gertrude has 10 fleas, Maud has 25 fleas and Olive has 5 for a total of 10 + 25 + 5 = 40 fleas. The final answer: 40.
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