SOLUTION: A man sold 2 acres more than 3/5 of his farm and had 4 acres less than 1/2 of it left. How many acres in the farm? Call this X. Find X.
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Question 823947: A man sold 2 acres more than 3/5 of his farm and had 4 acres less than 1/2 of it left. How many acres in the farm? Call this X. Find X.
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Started with X acres. , directly from the description. If you can understand that translation, then that is most of the problem. The rest is to solve for X. Continuing not to completion,
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