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A Visit to a Very Eggy Country  Have you ever heard people say, "not for all the tea in China"? It means that you really, really don't want to do something. The phrase comes from the facts that Chinese people like to drink tea and there are a lot of people in China. That adds up to a lot of tea. If you like tea and even all the tea in China isn't enough to make you do something, you must feel pretty strongly about it. In addition to liking tea, Chinese people like eggs. Because the economy is better now, the Chinese are eating eight times more eggs than they did back in 1979. Today each Chinese person is eating 38 pounds of eggs a year. Can you figure out how many dozen-sized cartons of eggs 38 pounds would be? How many eggs? Hints: Large-sized eggs are the size hens most often lay. One dozen Large-sized eggs weigh 1 1/2 pounds.  To answer the questions, you need to do these math problems: 38 (total pounds of eggs per person per year) divided by 1 1/2 (number of pounds for a dozen Large-sized eggs) = X (number of dozens of Large-sized eggs for one person for one year) X times 12 (number of eggs in a dozen) = Y (number of Large-sized eggs for one person for one year) The answers to the math problems are: X = 25 1/3 (25.333) dozens of Large-sized eggs per person per year Y = 304 (303.999) Large-sized eggs per person per year Egg consumption is increasing in America, too. In 1991, the average American ate 233.5 eggs during the year. Last year, each American ate 245 eggs. |
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