Question

Samuel spud from spuds farm is preparing to harvest his crop of potatoes to sell to the grocery store in time for thanksgiving. The field has 180 rows of potato plants with 328 potato plants in each row. Samuel estimates that they will harvest the entire field in 15 hours. How many potato plants are there in all? How many potatoes plants will their crew harvest each hour?

Answer 1

First part is easy.

180 rows with 328 per row is 180x328=59,040

Now he says 15 hours. So 59040/15=3936