document.write( "Question 143537: Problem: Farmland conversion. The amount of farmland in the United States is decreasing by 1 acre every 0.00876 hours as farmland is being converted to nonfarm use. At what rate in acres per day is the farmland decreasing? \n" ); document.write( "

Algebra.Com's Answer #104460 by Fruglemiester1234(13) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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This problem would work best for us if it was written in a porportion.
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\n" ); document.write( " $\"1%2F.00876+=+x%2F24\"$ acres/hours
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\n" ); document.write( "Note: I get 24 becuase we have to have the same units in the same places, so our days need to be converted into hours.
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\n" ); document.write( "Then we cross multiply to get:
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\n" ); document.write( " $\".00876x+=+24\"$
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\n" ); document.write( "Divide both sides by .00876 to get x by itself:
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\n" ); document.write( " $\".00876x%2F.00876+=+24%2F.00876\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"x+=+2739.726\"$
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\n" ); document.write( "So farmland is decreasing by about 2740 acres a day.
\n" ); document.write( "When written as a fraction it looks like this: $\"1%2F2740\"$ \n" ); document.write( "

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