Tuesday, October 19, 2021

New Real Life Puzzle

I was at the pumpkin patch the other day and so I am inspired by the workers that move the pumpkin around. I am trying to make the problem similar to the Can Soup problem, in that a lot of estimation and reasoning is required. 

Suppose a worker at the farm deals with similar sized pumpkins and wheelbarrows seen in the photo below. What is the maximum amount of pumpkins this wheelbarrow can hold? What might be an average amount that a person may choose to put in their wheelbarrow? How much time would it take for the worker to move 50 pumpkins a distance of 500 meters? 








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