Problem 11: Potatoes To prepare dinner in the army mess hall, Evelyn, who is a member of the Fourth Battalion of the Twenty-Third Regiment, generally uses about 85 pounds of potatoes to feed the 358...

Problem 11: Potatoes
To prepare dinner in the army mess hall, Evelyn, who is a member of the Fourth Battalion of the Twenty-Third Regiment, generally uses about 85 pounds of potatoes to feed the 358 people in her unit. She usually assigns 3 soldiers to scrub the potatoes, and it takes them about 20 minutes to complete the job. However, last week she needed to feed about 817 people, beginning at 17:30 hours, because of a special army event. When she arrived at the mess hall tent, she discovered that 131 pounds of potatoes had been sent. She needed to send for the rest right away. How many pounds did Evelyn request, and how many soldiers did she need if she wanted each of them to spend about 20 minutes scrubbing?