if a farmer wants to plough a farm field on time , he must plough 120 hectares a day . for technical reasons he ploughed only 85 hectares a day , hence he had to plough 2 more days than he planned and he still has 40 hectares left . what is the area of the farm field and how many days the farmer planned to work initially ?
let x be the number of days in the initial plan . therefore , the whole field is 120 ⋅ x hectares . the farmer had to work for x + 2 days , and he ploughed 85 ( x + 2 ) hectares , leaving 40 hectares unploughed . then we have the equation : 120 x = 85 ( x + 2 ) + 40 35 x = 210 x = 6 so the farmer planned to have the work done in 6 days , and the area of the farm field is 120 ⋅ 6 = 720 hectares correct answer c
multiply(divide(add(40, multiply(2, 85)), subtract(120, 85)), 120)