Funer Hardware

A phone call came in for 96 bricks - the warehouse
now knows that they need 9 rods of 10 bricks and
6 individual bricks in their box to ship out!

We hadn't heard from Princess Funer in quite some time, so it was great to get a message from her yesterday morning!  After the dreaded snuzzlewump destroyed the Land of Cm, the princess saw a need for a new hardware store to help supply the construction workers with their building materials so that the land could rebuild.  Funer Hardware opened last week and everyone was so grateful.  Of course, the calls started coming in for orders of pipes, bricks, and tools - too many calls for the princess to handle!  That's where we came in.

The princess set up an office space for us - with telephones, pencils, and recording cards.  We went to our offices and got our desks ready.  Then the phones began to ring!  All throughout our room we heard, "Hello, Funer Hardware, how can I help you?" and "Funer Hardware!  We have all your building supplies!  How can I direct your call?" as the phones rang.  All of the calls were orders for bricks.  We knew from the princess's message that the warehouse was organized with the bricks in flats of 100 bricks, rods of 10 bricks, or single bricks.  The warehouse needed the total number of bricks as well as how many flats, rods, and single bricks to pack up from the warehouse shelves.  We took over 200 orders for the hardware store yesterday!

Today we will continue taking orders - but with much larger numbers!  We are becoming experts in identifying how many 1s, 10s, and 100s are in numbers all the way up to 1,000!

A worker puts down his phone and
records an order

A basket of complete orders for the warehouse