SOLUTION: The word problem reads as follows: Farmland Conversion: The amount of farmland in the United States is decreasing by one acre every 0.00876 hours as farmland is being coverted to n
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Question 137626: The word problem reads as follows: Farmland Conversion: The amount of farmland in the United States is decreasing by one acre every 0.00876 hours as farmland is being coverted to nonfarm use (American Farmland Trust, www.farmland.org) At what rate in acres per day is the farmland decreasing?
Answer by checkley77(12844) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
1/.00876=x/24
.00876x=24
x=24/.00876
x=2,739.7 acres per day are being lost.
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