If a crop consultant finds an average of 82 seeds dropped per 50 feet of travel with a 30-inch row spacing, what is the seeding rate in seeds per acre?

To calculate the seeding rate in seeds per acre, it's important to understand the relationship between the number of seeds observed over a specific distance, the row spacing, and the total area represented by those observations.

Given that there are 82 seeds dropped per 50 feet of travel, we first need to determine how many seeds would be present in an acre based on this observation. An acre is 43,560 square feet.

With a row spacing of 30 inches, we can convert this to feet: 30 inches is 2.5 feet. The number of rows in an acre can be calculated by dividing the total area (43,560 square feet) by the space taken by each row (2.5 feet):

43,560 square feet / 2.5 feet = 17,424 rows per acre.

Next, we need to find out how far the consultant would travel in feet for one acre. Since each row is 50 feet in length for the observed 82 seeds, the number of 50-foot segments that would fit into one acre of a 2.5-foot wide row is:

Total feet in one acre / row width = (43,560 feet per acre / 2.5 feet width per