Problema Solution
if the average soldier ate 1/2 pint of beans,6 ounces of salted pork, and two hardtack biscuits every meal,two meals a day, how many pounds of salted pork would you need to feed one regiment of soldiers a day?how many pounds of beans did two brigades eat in a day? how many hard tack biscuits were eaten in a day by one division? How long would it take a corps to eat 2,880,000 biscuits? there are:1000 men in a regiment. 2 regiments in a brigade. 4 brigades in a division. 3 divisions in a corps. also:16oz in a pint. 16oz in a pound
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1 pint = 16 oz
1 pound = 16 oz
Every day 1 soldier eats 2 meals and total of:
2*(1/2)*16 = 16 oz of beans = 1 lbs
2*6 = 12 oz = 2*(6/16) lbs of salted pork
2*2 = 4 hard-stack biscuits
- how many pounds of salted pork would you need to feed one regiment of soldiers a day?
there are:1000 men in a regiment
1000*12 = 1200 oz = 1200/16 = 7b pounds of pork
- how many pounds of beans did two brigades eat in a day?
1 brigade = 2 regiments = 2*1000 = 2000 men
1*2000 = 2000 lbs of beans
- how many hard tack biscuits were eaten in a day by one division?
1 division = 4 brigades = 2*2000 = 4000 men
4*4000 = 14,000 hard-stack biscuits
- how long would it take a corps to eat 2,880,000 biscuits?
1 corps = 3 divisions = 3*4000 = 12000 men
1 corps eats 12000*4 = 48,000 biscuits per day
2,880,000 / 48,000 = 2880 / 48 = 60 days