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Estimates of early Native American hunter-gather societies indicated that a person could
collect about 90 kg (200 b) of grasshoppers per hour, when they are abundant (in other
words, it is possible to gather enough grasshoppers to live on). Now suppose the farmer
chose to eat grasshoppers instead of hens. How many people could the grasshoppers
feed in a year, compared to the one person that the hens fed: (use your calculation of the
number of grasshoppers needed to support the hens for a year)
O 15 people/year
O
250 people/year
1.64 people/year
5.47 x 10 people/year

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Other assumptions associated with this question are as follows:

  • One person can feed on 1 hen/day for a year
  • 1 hen must east 25 grasshoppers /day
  • the total mass of 1000 grasshoppers is 1kg
  • 600 grasshoppers are needed to feed 1 human per day

Grasshoppers is represented as Gh.

The total amount needed to feed the hen per year is:

  • 25 x 365= 9,125 Gh/Year
  • If expressed in Kg, then it would be 9,125/1000 which is
  • = 9.125Kg/annum.

So if the farmer chose to live on grasshoppers rather than on hens, the calculation is given as follows:

  • (90 kg/1 hour) x (24 hours/1 day) x (1 person/ 600 Gh)

The amount of Grasshoppers required is given as follows;

If the farmer can gather 90 Gh in one hour then,

  • The total amount of Gh per day is 90 x 24 = 2,160
  • the total amount of Gh available in a year is 2160 x 365 = 788,400 Gh/Year
  • If 600 grasshoppers are quired to feed the human per day, then we work backward
  • The total amount of Gh available in a day is 788,400/365. This is equal to 2160 Gh
  • The total amount of people this can feed is given as 2,160/600
  • Which is equal to 3.6 persons.

Since humans or people cannot be divided into fractions like a measure of sugar or a measure of liquid, the answer is best left to the most approximate digit with it 4 Persons.

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