Question

A farmer has 3/4 acre of land. He will use all the land and plant different vegetables in 1/16 -acre sections. How many sections of vegetables will the farmer have?​

Answer 1

Answer: 12 sections of 1/16 acre

Step-by-step explanation:

We want to find how many sections of 1/16 acre we can have in a total area of 3/4 acre.

This is equal to the quotient between 3/4 and 1/16

Remember that if we have two rational numbers (a/b) and (c/d) the quotient can be writen as:

(a/b)/(c/d) = (a/b)*(d/c) = (a*d)/(b*c)

The quotient we want to solve is:

(3/4)/(1/16) = (3/4)*(16/1) = (3*16)/4 = 12

Then you can have 12 sections of 1/16 acre