If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in another field?

If the farmer combines all the haystacks from both fields, he would have a total of 9 haystacks (5 from one field and 4 from the other). However, if we consider that combining haystacks into one would result in a single stack, he would end up with just 1 haystack in the new field. Therefore, the answer depends on whether you're counting individual stacks or the combined total.