SOLUTION: Farmland conversions: The amount of farmland in the US is decreasing by one acre every 0.00876 hours as farmland is being onverted to non farmland use. At what rate in acres per

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Question 42637: Farmland conversions: The amount of farmland in the US is decreasing by one acre
every 0.00876 hours as farmland is being onverted to non farmland use. At what
rate in acres per day is the farmland decreasing?
Answer by Nate(3500) About Me  (Show Source):
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0.00876 = 876/100,000
1 acre for 876/100,000 hours * 100,000
100,000 acres for 876 hours
12,500/3 acres for 36.5 days
25,000/219 acres for 1 day
about 114 acres for 1 day