A donkey eats 3/9 of a hay bale a week. How many hay bales does he eat in 21 days?

In this question, we're trying to find how many bales of hay the donkey eats in 21 days.

We know that the donkey eats 3/9 of a hay bale a week.

Lets turn this into a whole fraction to make it easier to find the answer:

The donkey would eat 9/9, or 1 hay bale, in 3 weeks.

We know that 3 weeks is equivalent to 21 days (1 week = 7 days), so our answer would be one hay bale.

Answer:

One hay bale.

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Step-by-step explanation:

since a week is 1/3 of 21 days. ALl we need to do is 3/9 x 3 which = 1