For the purposes of exercise, you make make the following assumptions:
1. A farmer lives on 1 hen per day for a year
2. 1 hen eats 25 grasshoppers per day
3. 1,000 grasshoppers have a mass of 1 kg
4. 1 grasshopper requires about 30 g of soy beans per year
5. 1 human requires about 600 grasshoppers per day
6. Soybeans have 3.3 calories per gram

QUESTIONS
SHOW ALL YOUR MATH USING PROPER UNITS

1. Calculate the number of grasshoppers a hen eats per year.
2. How many grasshoppers are needed for a year’s supply of hens for the farmer?
3. What is the total mass, in kilograms, of the grasshoppers needed to feed all the hens for one year?
4. How many kilograms of soybeans are needed to feed all the grasshoppers for one year?
5. Suppose the farmer chose to eat grasshoppers instead of hens.  How many people could the grasshoppers feed, compared to the one person that the hen fed?
6. The farmer needs to consume 3,000 calories per day.  If he ate only soybeans instead of the hens or grasshoppers, how many people would his soybean crop feed?