Pemsah's Corn And Phenomena Case Study

TO: Chief Scribe
FROM: L D
DATE: February 7, 2012
SUBJECT: Response to your requests
Introduction
In this memo, I will respond to your requests. I will explain the relationship between Sihathor and Pemsah’s corn farms measurements and the phenomena and attributes of interest as they relate to Amenohotep’s land. I will assess which of two nobles did better job with his land. Finally, I will discuss the problem of mice in Pemsah’s corn granary and its effects on the measurements I provide you.
Measurements, Phenomena and Attribute of Interests
Amenhotep gave Sihathor 20,000 west of the Nile River region, and 10,000 sacks of corn to plant. He gave Pemsah 7,000 sacks of corn to plant and 15,000 arura in the eastern. By the end of harvest year, Sihathor and Pemsah’s fields yielded respectively 50,200 and 34,300 sacks of corn. The number of sacks of
His field produced 50,200 sacks of corn with a productivity of 5.02 sacks per sack of corn planted. Pemsah received 7,000 sacks to plant and his fields yielded 34,300 with 4.9 sacks produced per sacks of corn planted. You would note that this measurement is not a good indication for the farms’ profitability. The land Sihathor received was more fertile than Pemsah’s land. Consequently, we would advise that you take into account the net income and the total production of corn to measure profitability. By computing Sihathor’s net income of 21,796 sacks divided by 50,200, the total sacks of corn produced of we obtain Sihathor corn farm’s profitability ratio of 0.43. Similarly, Pemsah’s net income of 15,615.33 divided by 34,300 gives a profitability ratio of 0.455. This ratio represents the percentage of corn each noble was able to retain after incurring expenses. Because of Pemsah’s higher efficiency ratio and lack of irrelevant spending compared to Sihathor’s palace renovation, we assess that he did better job with his