Each cow eats 4.5 cups of feed a day and the bucket it comes in contains 250 cups.

Question

Each cow eats 4.5 cups of feed a day and the bucket it comes in contains 250 cups.

The buckets cost $26.75 each. If a farm has 16 cows, how much will it cost to feed all of the cows for 1 week? (system of equations)

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Answer 1

Each cow eats 4.5 cups of feed a day and the bucket it comes in contains 250 cups.

16 cows * 4.5 cups/cow/day * 7days * 1bucket/250cups * $26.75/bucket = $53.93