"2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?"
WHAT?!? I need the volume of a bushel of wheat! Who deals with bushel anymore? Honestly. I don't know how hard this would have been at the time. It's all relative to time and place. I can't answer ANY of the questions on the US anyway, I grew up in Jamaica... by the time I was in grade 8, we were learning about the processing of sugarcane and coffee.
I asked my girlfriend who is a math teacher of the 6th grade. She said they still ask about bushels and that somewhere in the text book it defines bushel!! I nearly feel feet up! This is NYC!
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Their hungry thirsty roots?"