SOLUTION: a farmer sells 99 hectares of land.this represents 37 1/2 percent of his original farm.how big was the original farm

SOLUTION: a farmer sells 99 hectares of land.this represents 37 1/2 percent of his original farm.how big was the original farm

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Question 997837: a farmer sells 99 hectares of land.this represents 37 1/2 percent of his original farm.how big was the original farm
Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Call the original size of the farm x.
Thus .375x = 99 and
x = 99/.375 = 264 hectares
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