Question

each mile of railway track required between 1760 and 2000 sleepers. if one average -sized tree yields 3 to 5 sleepers for a 3m wide broad gauge track calculate approximately how many trees would have to be cut to lay one mile of track

Answer 1

1 mile = 1609m aprox.

For covinence in calc. lets take it as 1608m

Its also given, one average -sized tree yields 3 to 5 sleepers for a 3m wide broad gauge track

Therefore no. of trees would have to be cut to lay one mile of track is given by,

1608/3 = 506trees.(approx)