Most math problems posed in school textbooks are created in order to use whatever new math concept the students are learning at the time. This leads to math problems that "fit" perfectly with the step-by-step process found in the textbook but don't relate to any real-life situation. However, here we have a real math problem, from a real person, working a real job, that illustrates some basic geometry principles.
My uncle, who is a farmer, asked me to solve this problem for him:
If it takes 15 minutes to drive a tractor around the perimeter of a field, driving at 6 mph, how many acres is the field? Try to figure this out on your own. If you don't know what an acre is, you can check this Wikipedia article. The answer is after the jump.
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Thursday, July 7, 2011
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