Math+Problem

James Stockton of Adams County has large wheat farm. Since the war is now over, there are 39 dead horses in his fields. His wagon can hold 4 dead horses at a time. It takes his workers an average of 8 minutes to load a dead horse, 4 minutes to get to another dead horse, and 5 minutes to unload a wagon full of dead horses.

How many times will the workers unload the wagon?

How long will it take to rid John's fields of all the dead horses?

Problem #2:

John has cleared his fields and is now trying to plan how to plant them. He wants to raise Rye and Barley. See the Shopping page to create an objective function with x representing bushels of Rye and y representing bushels of Barley. He can only buy enough seed to make 250 total bushels of grain. It takes his workers 1 hour to plant a bushel of Rye and 2 hours to plant a bushel of Barley. He can only afford to have his workers plant seed for a total of 300 hours. How many bushels of Rye and Barley should John plant to make the most money?