Question

Assume that one pig eats 4 pounds of food each week. There are 52 weeks in a year. How much food will 12 pigs eat in four weeks

Answer 1

And then we want to know how much food do 12 pigs eat in four weeks. Well, one pig eats four pounds per week, so it's four pounds per pig per week times 12 pigs times four weeks. And then our units, the pigs cancel, the weeks cancel, so we just get four times 12 times four pounds, and that is equal to 192 pounds.