A farmer plants potatoes for his own use and to grow seed for next year’s crop. If the yield is exactly ten times the amount planted and he uses ten tons of potatoes every year, what is the minimum weight of potatoes he should plant now?
2006-10-17 23:32:50 · 33 answers · asked by bobby t 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
its not 1 or 1.1!!!!!!!!!!
2006-10-17 23:38:06 · update #1
do potatoes seed?
2006-10-17 23:34:28 · answer #1 · answered by gwendolynpearce 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
10
2006-10-18 00:40:33 · answer #2 · answered by DARKORD 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He gets 9 tons to use for every ton planted (the other ton going to replace the seed).
Therefore to get 10 tons of usable potatoes he needs to plant 10/9 of a ton of seed, or 1.1111111...
2006-10-17 23:49:28 · answer #3 · answered by gvih2g2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None. He should wait until the right season for planting potatoes, as you don't do it in mid October!
(Just a guess, I don't know much about potato growing, but I think this time of year is when they are pulled up? They need to be fairly old to survive winter, as they need to put mass down below ground out of the way of frost, so they need to have been around a while to do that.)
2006-10-17 23:46:30 · answer #4 · answered by Steve-Bob 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He should plant 'ONE TON ONE HUNDRED ELEVEN KG AND 112 GRAMS' of potatoes so that he can get 10 ton yield and 'ONE TON ONE HUNDRED ELEVEN KG and 120 grams of seed' I guess he wont mind ignoring extra 8 grams of potatoes.. after all it's just potatoes not the 'Gold' !
2006-10-18 00:03:43 · answer #5 · answered by pawan g 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
10 TONS - You've already said the answer.
"He uses ten tons of potatoes every year"
2006-10-18 00:21:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if he uses one ton of potatoes to plant - he will get 10 out of it,
i hope that is right not my best at maths
2006-10-17 23:36:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
10 ton
2006-10-17 23:36:15 · answer #8 · answered by Out of Africa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 ton for this year and 1 ton for next year? 2 tons?
2006-10-17 23:49:57 · answer #9 · answered by E=MC2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ten tons to plant now
as the scenario says: "HE USES TEN TONS OF POTATOS EVERY YEAR"
The ten tons is not the yield, it is the amount he plants.
2006-10-17 23:43:05 · answer #10 · answered by Grace A 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ummm 100 ton?
2006-10-17 23:43:06 · answer #11 · answered by little.lost 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋