The Browns bought a tract of land for $640,000. What was the cost per acre if the tract is the W 1/2 of the N 1/2 of the SE 1/4 of section 10?

To determine the cost per acre of the Browns' tract of land, we first need to calculate how many acres are in the specified portion of the land.

The description given is the "W 1/2 of the N 1/2 of the SE 1/4 of section 10." To break this down, we can apply the principles of land measurement.

1. Each section of land in the Public Land Survey System is typically 640 acres.
2. The SE 1/4 of a section represents one-quarter of the section:
   • This equals 640 acres divided by 4, which is 160 acres.
3. The N 1/2 of the SE 1/4 then refers to one-half of that 160 acres:
   • Therefore, 160 acres divided by 2 gives us 80 acres.
4. Finally, the W 1/2 of the N 1/2 of the SE 1/4 refers to half of those 80 acres:
   • Thus, we divide 80 acres by 2, resulting in 40 acres.

Now that we know there are 40 acres in the Browns' tract of land, we can calculate the cost per acre