SOLUTION: A 4-H Club group is raising pigs to show at the County Fair. Each pig eats 2.8 pounds of grain a day. If the grain costs $7.25 per pound, how much will it cost to feed one pig for
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Question 1054279: A 4-H Club group is raising pigs to show at the County Fair. Each pig eats 2.8 pounds of grain a day. If the grain costs $7.25 per pound, how much will it cost to feed one pig for 60 days?
Death Valley National Monument contains 2,067,795 acres of land. How many square miles is this? Round to 2 decimal places, if necessary.
Im so confused :(
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The units have to make sense in any problem
You are given:
Each pig eats: [ 2.8 pounds of grain / day ]
Cost of grain: [ $7.25 / pound of grain ]
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[ $7.25 / pound of grain ] x [ 2.8 pounds of grain / day ] = [ cost to feed 1 pig for 1 day ]
This is:
$20.30 / 1 pig / 1 day
The cost is:
$1,218 / 1 pig / 60 days
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Note that you get the same result if you
feed 60 pigs for 1 day
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The conversion to use is:
1 acre = .00156 square miles
In terms of units:
[ number of acres ] x [ square mi / acre ] = [ square mi ]
3,225.76 square miles
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