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Question

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Famer Brown grows wheat to selll to a bread bakery. Mr. Browns 150 acre yeilds wheat at a rate of 550 bu/ace and the mill transforms the wheat to flour at 100lb/bu. If it takes 1.5 lb flour to make a loaf of bread, how many loafs of breas could Mr. Brown's crop produce??

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Answer 1

yield of Mr. Brown's field=150*550 bu
fluor@100lb/bu=150*550*100 lbs.
no of loaves@1.5 lb fluor/loaf
=150*550*100/1.5=5,500,000

Answer 2

We know that the mill transforms the wheat to flour at 100 lb per bu.To solve this problem one would have to know the total amount of lbs of flour he produces from the 150acre.If 100lbs r made from 1bu then 100*550lbs i.e 55,000lbs r produced in 1 acre and if 55,000lbs r made in an acre then 150 acres would make 150*55,000lbs i.e 8,250,000lbs. Now since 1.5lbs make a loaf then 8,250,000lbs make 5,500,000lbs.

Answer 3

It can't be done legally since a bushel of wheat is 60 lbs. That would mean the flour was adultured.If just a math question then 150ac*550bpa=82500 bu. then you get 8250000lbs of flour which / 1.5 lb per loaf=5500000 loaves.....

Answer 4

You want to cancel/exhange units:

150 acre * 550 bu/acre = 82500 bu (the acre cancels out)
82500 bu * 100 lb/bu =8250000 lb (the bu cancels out)
8250000 lb * 1 loaf/ 1.5 lb = 5500000 (the lb cancels out)

The answer is 5500000 loafs of bread.

Answer 5

150 acres yields 550 bushels per acre. Multiply those numbers to get all the total number of bushels.

100lbs of flour comes from 1 bushel...or that's what it looks like you said. Use the total number of bushels and multiply that by 100 to get the total number of pounds of flour. Then divide the pounds of flour by 1.5 to get the number of loaves.