Homework Help: algebra

Posted by Sam on Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at 9:26pm.

a farmer grows corn, tomatoes, and sunflowers on a 320 acre farm. this year the farmer wants to plant twice as many acres of tomatoes as sunflowers. The farmer also wants to plant 40 more acres of corn than of tomatoes. How many acres of of each crop should the farmer plant?

algebra - Ms. Sue, Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at 9:29pm
Let s = acres of sunflowers

s + 2s + 2s + 40 = 320

5s = 280

s = 56

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