Hi, Kooper, long time no see,Kooper 寫:Another try:
The number of eggs an ant queen lays doubles in its last five years of life.
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Hi Rock, 前5年 seems redundant to me... I guess you just want the idea of 產量倍增 right? Besides we usually express 產量 in the way of xxx(數字) eggs per day, week, month, or year.
It seems weird to compare this five years to that five years.
No, it's not redundant. I was trying to make a difficult math question for my 13-year-old nephew. To give him a hard time, I wrote it in English. To confuse him, I confused myself, too.