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bezimeni [28]
3 years ago
13

Miguel recently sold some farmland and bought a new plot that consists of 968 acres. Miguel calculates that this is 20% less acr

eage than he used to own. What was the acreage of the old land?
Mathematics
1 answer:
Delicious77 [7]3 years ago
6 0

Answer:

1210 acres

Step-by-step explanation:

Given data

let the old farmland be x acres

new farmland = 968 acres

therefore

let us find 20% of the old farmland

=20/100x

=0.2x

Hence

968+0.2x=x

collect like terms

968=x-0.2x

968=0.8x

x= 968/0.8

x=1210 acres

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