A giant hummingbird flaps its wings 1/8 times as fast as a bee hummingbird if a giant hummingbird flaps its wings 10 times per second write and solve the equation to show how many times a bee hummingbird flaps its wings per second

80 flaps per second

Step-by-step explanation:

x = speed of giant wings

y = speed of bee wings

x = 1/8y

x = 10

10=1/8y

80=y

A bee hummingbird flaps its wings 80 times a second.

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step-by-step explanation:

we need to solve for 'x' the following equation:  

we have that:

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factorizing, we get that:

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then, the solutions are: or

nothing extraneous has been found!