Lizzy: A bushel of corn weighs 56 pounds and each individual ear of corn weighs .5 pounds. If Clyde picked 2 bushels of corn over the weekend, how many individual corn cobs did he pick?.
Me: Hmmm, let me think. I think this is the detailed solution:
He picked 2 bushels of corn and each bushel weighs 56 pounds so he picked 2 * 56 = 112 pounds of corn. Each ear of corn weighs .5 pounds and he has 112 pounds of corn so he picked 112 / .5 = 224 ears of corn. Final answer: 224.