The Widget Factory Puzzle

If it takes five machines 5 minutes to make five widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets?

👉 5 minutes


Explanation:

Each machine makes 1 widget every 5 minutes (since 5 machines make 5 widgets in 5 minutes).
So with 100 machines working in parallel, they will produce 100 widgets in the same 5 minutes because they are all working simultaneously, not one after another.

This riddle tests your ability to recognize parallel processing over linear scaling.

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