Farmer Fran is harvesting her crop of pomegranates. We don’t know when she started, but at 10:00 A.M., she had already harvested

Question

2 years ago

14

Farmer Fran is harvesting her crop of pomegranates. We don’t know when she started, but at 10:00 A.M., she had already harvested

2 acres. When we checked at noon, she had harvested a total of 9 acres. What is Fran’s average rate of harvesting? (A reminder of the instructions: Besides showing your work, your answer must include correct units of measure.)

Mathematics

1 answer:

77julia77 [94] · Answer 1 · 2022-09-15T07:44:30+03:00

Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

<u>Rate of Change</u>

Farmer Fran had harvested 2 acres of pomegranates at 10:00 A.M. At noon (12:00 P.M.) she had harvested 9 acres.

From both times, 2 hours had passed. During that time, she harvested 9-2=7 acres.

The rate of harvesting is:

$r=\frac{7}{2}\ acre/hour$

Or, expressed in decimal:

r = 3.5 acre/hour