Montana grows three kinds of wheat, dark northern spring, hard red winter, and hard
amber.Hard wheat makes the best flour for bread. Use the information below
to answer the questions.
1 bushel of wheat = 60 pounds
60 pounds of wheat = 42 pounds of flour
42 pounds of flour = 73 loaves of bread
1. How many bushels of wheat are needed to make 330 loaves of bread?__________
2. Two bushels of wheat would equal how many pounds of flour?__________
3. How many loaves of bread would you get from two bushels of wheat?__________
4. One ton equals 2,000 pounds. Approximately how many bushels equal one ton?__________
5. If 1 bushel makes 73 loaves of bread and the average loaf of bread has 16 slices, how many sandwiches would that make?__________
6. How many days would it take to eat all of those sandwiches if you had a sandwich for breakfast, lunch and dinner?__________
*Thank you to Agriculture in Montana Schools for providing this information.
