it takes an ant farm 3 days to consume half of an Apple at that rate in how many days will the ant farm consume apples?

From the comments below we see the missing part of the question is "in how many days will the ant farm consume 3 apples?"

The answer is 18.

Step-by-step explanation:

We will use a proportion to solve this. It takes 3 days to consume 1/2 of an apple; this gives us the ratio

3/0.5

We want to know how many days, x, it will take to consume 3 apples; this gives us the ratio

x/3

Together this gives us the proportion

3/0.5 = x/3

Cross multiply:

3 (3) = 0.5 (x)

9 = 0.5x

Divide both sides by 0.5:

9/0.5 = 0.5x/0.5

18 = x

It will take 18 days for the ants to eat three apples