SOLUTION: The farm has 450 acres of land to grow corn and wheat the cost to cultivate corn is $42 per acre. The cost to cultivate wheat is $35 per acre.they have $16,520.00 to cultivate thes

Question 1006466: The farm has 450 acres of land to grow corn and wheat the cost to cultivate corn is $42 per acre. The cost to cultivate wheat is $35 per acre.they have $16,520.00 to cultivate these crops.how many acres of each crop should they plant?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Usually they want the most profitable way to spend
money on 2 or more crops
This question just wants to know how to split the
available acres so that you end up spending the
exact amount of money you have available
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Let = acres of corn to be planted
= acres of wheat to be planted
= cost to plant acres of corn
= cost to plant
acres of wheat
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and

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110 acres of corn and 340 acres of wheat
should be planted
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check:

OK
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