You have 790 acres of rice that you can combine at the rate of 8.5 acres per hour, using 1.2 gallons of diesel fuel per acre with a regular header. If you change the header to a stripper header, you can combine the 790 acres of rice in 3/ /4 of the time using 0.9 gallon of diesel fuel per acre. Diesel fuel sells for $3.18 per gallon.
a. How many hours does it take to combine the rice with the regular header?
b. How many hours does it take to combine the rice with the stripper header?
c. How much was saved on diesel fuel using the stripper header?
a. 93 hr
b. 70 hr
c. $753.66
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