Be sure to read the report from Mt. Olive Pickle Company and see if you can answer the math questions.
![Flat Aggie checks out one of our cutting machines. This one is cutting whole pickles into hamburger dill chips.](http://illinoisfarmgirl.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/cutting-department.jpg?w=225&h=300)
Pickle Farmer Math
1. Flat Aggie helped label 4 jars of
pickles. Each jar gets 2 labels. How many labels did Flat Aggie use?
2. Flat Aggie packed 3 jars of
pickles and his helper packed 5 jars of pickles. How many jars did they pack in all?
3. Flat Aggie helped pickle cucumbers
and peppers form Mexico, India, Greece, Peru and the United States. How many countries did he see vegetables
from?
4. There are 1100 tanks at Mt. Olive
Pickles and each one holds 800 bushels of cucumbers. How many bushels of pickles are there if all
the tanks are filled?
5. If a bushel of cucumbers weighs 48
pounds, how many pounds of cucumbers would there be in each tank?
6. If 130 million jars of products
are packed at Mt. Olive in a year, how many jars is that per day? Assuming they pack jars every day. (Round to the nearest thousand)
Answers: 1.) 8 labels
2.) 8 jars 3.)5 countries 4.) 880,000 5.) 38,400 pounds 6.) 356000 jars
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