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							                 Mosquito-Eating Machines
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      • Woodworking for
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                                                                          How many years in a century?           _________
                hat does one big brown bat                                Add a zero. _________
                eat each night? Use the clues
                                                                          Multiply times 3.      _________
                to find out!                                                                       (A)

                                                                          How many pennies in a dollar?          _________
     A bat eats between _________ and                   _________
                                           (A)            (B)             Multiply times the
                 mosquitoes and other                                     number of days in a week. _________
                    insects each night.                                   Add one more zero.         _________
                                                                                                         (B)




United States Environmental Protection Agency    2003                                                                        15