Math Wizards at Work |
Name_________________________ Hay Now!
Ben & Jeremy were working on their farm one afternoon,
baling
hay. It was a bright hot day with
few clouds and plenty of blue sky. When
they finish making a bale of hay they put it on a
wagon. When the wagon is loaded, they roll
the
wagon into the barn and stack the hay in the back of the barn.
Baling hay is backbreaking work. Each
bale weighs 50 lbs. There is room in the
barn for 12 wagonloads of hay. They
started putting hay in the barn
yesterday. They hope to finish
today so that by sundown, the barn will have 12 wagons worth of hay
stored in
it. If a wagon can hold 5,000 lbs
of hay, and there are already 300 bales in the barn, how many bales
need to be
made and placed in the barn today? How
many wagonloads are still needed to fill the barn?
Good Luck!!!!!