Your pigs are now 50 pounds and you need to change the protein content in their ration. Now the ration must have 16 percent protein. You're going to mix corn, which has 9 percent protein, and soybean oil meal, which has 40 percent protein in it. What will you do? 18% 40% protein in soybean meal 22 parts corn 31 total parts 9 parts soybean meal 9% protein in corn

16%

40% protein in soybean meal

24 parts corn

31 total parts

7 parts soybean meal

9% protein in corn

1. If you are going to mix a 100 pounds of feed, how much corn do you need?

2. How much soybean oil meal do you need?

3. Does this feed ration have more corn or more soybean meal than in the previous ration? Why?