Question

we became acquainted with the people who call themselves wampanoag, they are very skilled gardeners and bowman. they gave us 2.75 pounds of corn seeds in exchange for a wool blanket. how many individual seeds were exchanged for 40 wool blankets

Answer 1

To find the number of seeds exchanged for 40 wool blankets, set up a proportion using the given exchange rate of 2.75 pounds of corn seeds for 1 wool blanket and solve for the unknown quantity of seeds. Cross-multiply and solve to find that 110 pounds of seeds were exchanged for 40 wool blankets.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find the number of seeds exchanged for 40 wool blankets, we can set up a proportion using the given exchange of 2.75 pounds of corn seeds for 1 wool blanket. We know that 2.75 pounds of seeds is equal to the number of individual seeds exchanged for 1 wool blanket. So, we can set up the following proportion:

2.75 pounds of seeds / 1 wool blanket = x pounds of seeds / 40 wool blankets

To find the value of x, we can cross-multiply and solve for x:

x = (2.75 pounds of seeds / 1 wool blanket) * 40 wool blankets

Therefore, the number of individual seeds exchanged for 40 wool blankets is 110 pounds of seeds.