SOLUTION: 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
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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? Answer by Fruglemiester1234(13) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! This problem would work best for us if it was written in a porportion.
. acres/hours
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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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Then we cross multiply to get:
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Divide both sides by .00876 to get x by itself:
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So farmland is decreasing by about 2740 acres a day.
When written as a fraction it looks like this:
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