One bag contains 3/5 of corn. A farmer feeds his chickens 4 bags of corn each week. How many kilograms of corn do they eat each day?
(3/5)kg/bag * 4bags/wk = 2.4 kg/wk.
2.4kg/1wk = 2.4kg/7days = 0.343kg/day.
12/35
it is 12/35
To solve this problem, we need to find out how much corn is in one bag and then calculate how much corn the chickens eat each day.
Firstly, we know that one bag contains 3/5 of corn. Let's assume that the total amount of corn in one bag is 'c' kilograms.
So, we can set up the equation (3/5) * c = 1 bag of corn.
To determine the value of 'c', we can multiply both sides of the equation by 5/3:
(3/5) * (5/3) * c = (5/3) * 1 bag of corn.
This simplifies to:
c = 5/3 bag of corn.
Since we have determined the value of 'c', we can use this to find out how much corn the chickens eat each day.
The farmer feeds his chickens 4 bags of corn each week. To calculate how much corn they eat each day, we divide the total amount of corn consumed per week by 7 (the number of days in a week).
Let's calculate:
Total amount of corn consumed per week = 4 bags * (5/3 bag of corn) = 20/3 bags of corn.
Amount of corn consumed per day = (20/3) bags of corn / 7 days ≈ 20/21 bags of corn.
Thus, the chickens eat approximately 20/21 bags of corn each day.