Question

A farm had 480 acres more wheat than corn. After the farmers collected 80% of the wheat and 25% of the corn, the area of the wheat was 300 acres less than the area of the corn. What was the area of the wheat field and what was the area of the corn field?

Answer 1

The area covered by corn is x
The area covered by wheat is (x+480)
After 80% of wheat was collected, the new area was:
20/10(x+480)
=1/5(x+480)
After 25% of the corn was collected, the new area was:
75/100x
=3/4x
New area equation will be:
(3/4)x=1/5(x+480)+300
(3/4x)=(1/5)x+96+300
solving for x we get:
11/20x=396
x=720
thus the original area of corn was 720 acres
Original area of wheat was 720+480=1200 acres