SOLUTION: The amount of farmland in the United States is decreasing by onr acre every 0.0876 hours as farmland is being converted to nonfarm use (American Farmland Trust, www.farmland.org).

Question 138890: The amount of farmland in the United States is decreasing by onr acre every 0.0876 hours as farmland is being converted to nonfarm use (American Farmland Trust, www.farmland.org). At what rate in acres per day is the farmland decreasing?
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1/.00876=x/24
.00876x=24
x=24/.00876
x=2,739.7 acres per day are being lost.

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