A farmer owns a field with an area of 0.34 km2. The farmer buys another field with an area of 34,500 m2. What is the total area of the fields he now owns in km2?
1km^2 = (1000m)^2 = 1,000,000 m^2
So the new field is 0.0345 km^2
Now just add 0.34 + 0.0345
Not a proper use of the metric system, a farmer would state his fields in either ares or hectares.
.34 km^2 = 3400 ares
34,500 m^2 = 345 ares
So now he has 3745 ares or 37.45 hectares
To find the total area of the fields the farmer now owns in km², we need to convert the area of the second field from m² to km².
First, let's convert 34,500 m² to km². Since there are 1,000,000 m² in 1 km², we can divide 34,500 by 1,000,000 to get the area in km².
34,500 m² / 1,000,000 = 0.0345 km²
Now, we can add the area of the first field, which is already given in km², to the converted area of the second field:
0.34 km² + 0.0345 km² = 0.3745 km²
Therefore, the farmer now owns a total area of 0.3745 km².