SOLUTION: 1. Farmer Tom ha 500 acres to plant with corn, soybeans and wheat. Write an equation in terms of c, s and w that models the information. 2. Growing an acre of corn costs $390, a

Question 1024631: 1. Farmer Tom ha 500 acres to plant with corn, soybeans and wheat. Write an equation in terms of c, s and w that models the information.
2. Growing an acre of corn costs $390, and an acre of soybeans costs $190, and an acre of wheat costs $170. Farmer Tom has a budget of $119,000 to spend on growing crops. Write and equation in terms of c, s, and w that models the information.
3. Farmer Tom plans to grow twice as many acres of wheat as acres of corn. Write an equation that models the information.
4. Write your equations from 1-3 as a system of equations. Solve.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = acres of corn grown
Let = acres of soybeans grown
Let = acres of wheat grown
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(1)
(2)
There is a missing equation. I can't solve
because there are 3 unknowns but only 2 equations
The missing equation probably says
= something
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