Wheat contains about 2.5 kcal per gram, and the average U. S. male consumes 2500 kcal per day. How many hectares of wheat are needed to support one average U. S. male for a year, assuming that 30 percent of his caloric intake is from wheat?

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Savannah Villa

28 May, 21:06

Wheat contains about 2.5 kcal per gram, and the average U. S. male consumes 2500 kcal per day. How many hectares of wheat are needed to support one average U. S. male for a year, assuming that 30 percent of his caloric intake is from wheat?

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Evangeline Lin · Answer 1

First of 30% of 2500kcal is 750kcal

if a male consumes 2.5 kcal then 750kcal / 2.5kcal = 300

but then we would need to know how many wheat are on one hectare of land.