We want to find the total amount of acres that a farmer has given that we know how many acres are in a percentage of his farm.
The farmer has 120 acres in total.
We know that the 60% of the farmer crops is equivalent to 72 acres.
Now we want to find the 100%.
Then we write two equations:
100% = X
60% = 72 acres
Now we want to solve this for X.
To do it, we first take the quotient between the two equations:
100%/60% = X/(72 acres)
Now we solve this for X:
(100%/60%)*(72 acres) = X = 120 acres.
The farmer has 120 acres in total.
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